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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1847
Source of text:
Phil.Mag., 1847, 31: 196-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[1 July 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.12; Reel 9
Summary:

Bookbinder James Hayday assured JH that two copies [of JH's Cape Results] for royal recipients would be ready Monday. Proposes presenting these to [Queen Victoria] and Prince Albert during Albert's installation at Cambridge University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1847-7
Source of text:
JHS 3.15a
Summary:

JH is apologizing for harsh words he inadvertently used, whereby he hurt MH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1847-7
Source of text:
JHS 6.41
Summary:

Met U. J. J. Leverrier, F. G. W. Struve, and George Peacock at the gate of Trinity College; has arranged for Leverrier and Struve to visit Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1847-7
Source of text:
JHS 6.40
Summary:

JH has organized something [?] special, and he believes it will come off.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[1?] July 1847
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.71 (C: RS:HS 25.9.45)
Summary:

Invites RS to dinner in Collingwood on 10 [July], as F. G. W. Struve will be there. U. J. J. Leverrier may also come, but G. B. Airy and John Lubbock cannot attend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
1?] July [1847
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.72 (C: RS:HS 25.9.44)
Summary:

Suggests RS visit Hawkhurst ca. 12 July as U. J. J. Leverrier, F. G. W. Struve, and J. C. Adams will be visiting. Suggests RS come with [W. R.] Dawes. JH's book [Cape Results] is nearly ready for private distribution. Asks RS that JH be allowed to tell parties, to whom a copy of the engraving of JH's portrait will be given, that it is a gift from RS, lest JH be considered immodest for giving his own 'effigy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project