From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
unknown
Date:
November 1859
Source of text:
MM/9/3, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
No summary available.
Talks about the death of Elizabeth Baily, and the beauty of the fall flowers; comments on correspondence that has arrived, and includes some family news.
Reports to MH on the contents of Elizabeth Baily's will [JH is given the house in Tavistock Place], and adds some family news, concluding by commiserating with MH's situation.
Responds to [?]'s 21 Oct. 1859 letter to John Phillips expressing Prince Albert's interest in the impact that proposed B.A.A.S. magnetic and meteorological observations will have on Treasury funds.