From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[13 January 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.297
Summary:
Thanks for the volume of EC's verse; comments on various aspects of poetry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Thanks for the volume of EC's verse; comments on various aspects of poetry.
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Of toads in rocks and stones, and martins in blocks of ice under rivers.
Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.
Comments about some pieces of German poetry.
Recounts various reports of phenomena in the sky related to the 'great Moscow phenomenon' of 'mock Suns and inverted Arches.'
Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.