From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Thomas] Y[oung]
Date:
[1829?-2?].
Source of text:
APS B.H435p.29
Summary:
Appears to have refused an offer of a payment or position.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Appears to have refused an offer of a payment or position.
Invites WW to JH's wedding. Asks him to come early to meet the bride's family.
A note of praise for Margaret Stewart [JH's fiancée] as a covering note for an enclosed 6pp letter from JH's cousin, Mary Baldwin, to CH, describing Margaret and her family.
Pays bill for a palladium chain. May wish to purchase another object [another palladium chain?].
Has some difficulty in producing his article on Light for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia as the publishers of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana consider it would be harmful to their own publication.
Accepts arrangement proposed by DL. JH will write a volume on astronomy [Treatise Astr.], but will need time. 14852