From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Henry Holland
Date:
5 Jan 1859
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:
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Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Returns HH’s essay.
Thanks for congratulations on award of Copley Medal by the Royal Society.
Discusses his long period of ill health.
Writes to thank HH for his kindness in nominating son Alexander for the meteorological post [see HH's 1865-5-1].
Seeks HH’s support for Hooker in JDH’s difficulties with A. S. Ayrton and the Ministry of Works [see Nature 6 (1872): 211–16].