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RS-MM-000825

From:
unknown
To:
unknown
Date:
c.1830s
Source of text:
MM/13/131, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel2166

From:
Alexander Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.411
Summary:

Sent some Edinburgh ale to the Herschels. Will not patent telescope. Discusses Giovanni Santini's article on telescopes in the Quarterly Journal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE469

From:
Frederick Marryat
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
early 1830s
Source of text:
MSM 2 / 186, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

RS-MM-000823

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
J Hudson
Date:
1830s
Source of text:
MM/13/129, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000821

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
c.1830s
Source of text:
MM/13/127, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000824

From:
John William Lubbock
To:
J W Lubbock
Date:
c.1830s
Source of text:
MM/13/130, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel3286

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.1
Summary:

Responds to JH's request for RS's opinion on [H. C.] Schumacher's contributions to astronomy. Praises Schumacher extensively.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5452

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1830 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.399
Summary:

Please send enclosed to Mr. Tukinor [?]. Gives brother-in-law's statement concerning Mrs. Urquhart and Mr. Deguise.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10065

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Grahame
Date:
1830
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.401
Summary:

Silly story asking 'what has become of JG?'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12638

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0058; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH shocked by MB's note. Will tell Mrs. Moorsom tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2637

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[1830-1?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.382 (C: RS:HS 25.13.29b)
Summary:

Admires her manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens]. Wishes [P. S.] Laplace would have lived to see it. Notes a problem with the principle of virtual velocity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9243

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Roberts
Date:
[1830 or later]
Source of text:
Yale Univ.
Summary:

Wanted [Michael] Underwood's book on the diseases of children [Treatise on the Diseases of Children], not [Astley P.] Cooper's book on surgery [Lectures on the Principles and Practices of Surgery]. Is an exchange possible?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN812

From:
Susannah Arethusa Milner- Gibson
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
[1830s-1850s]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/13/119, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks for gift of book and letter of recollections. Gratified by Lady Smith's support of her husband's late conduct [Thomas Milner Gibson (1806-1884), politician] and its contrast from the ill nature and persecution they have received from those that previously professed friendship. Invites Smith to visit.

[Note in red ink on verso of second folio giving brief biographical details of the letter sender. Letter dated 14 September but no year given]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

DCP-LETT-75

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[3 Jan 1830]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 25)
Summary:

Spent three weeks in London with Erasmus.

Entomologised with Hope, Stephens, and G. R. Waterhouse.

Cambridge is very quiet, men reading at a wonderful pace. Dined with Sir J. Mackintosh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel760

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1830]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.505a
Summary:

About the state of the renovations [see JH's 1829-12-[21]], and JH's plans for coming to London, where he needs to do some business both for himself and his mother.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel762

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[5] January 1830
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.505c
Summary:

There are some problems with some of the renovations [see JH's 1830-1-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8247

From:
J. W. Morton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.54a
Summary:

JH's Board of Longitude salary [£75] from June through Dec. 1828 has not been picked up. If JH does not claim it soon, it will be cancelled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel761

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1830]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.505b
Summary:

The renovations are complete [see JH's 1830-1-3], and JH sends details of his coming to London.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11132

From:
Mrs. Mary Frances Kater
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.21
Summary:

Capt. Kater is too unwell to write, but he would like to know whether JH is likely to claim the Navy Bills for his term as Commissioner of Longitude, as Kater will do whatever JH does in this matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3957

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1830]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Thrilled to be named godmother of JH's first child.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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