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DCP-LETT-53

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1828
Source of text:
DAR 154: 66
Summary:

Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.

News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-54

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[24 Dec 1828]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 7)
Summary:

CD is collecting entomological specimens;

extols the charms of Fanny Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5791

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.261
Summary:

Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11220

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
30 December [1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.110
Summary:

Encloses a new prospectus of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Intends to write physical astronomy himself. William Whewell cannot write Sound. Has a stock in hand for three years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0380

From:
Dominique François Jean Arago
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 December 1828
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel744

From:
Emilia Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.27
Summary:

Responds to JH's letters of 1828-12-4, and invites JH to visit them on 6 Dec.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8006

From:
George Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.273
Summary:

Seeking JH's address. Encloses dispatch. W. H. Wollaston getting weaker.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8007

From:
George Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.274
Summary:

Asks JH to insert full name of Peter Dollond into P & J Dollond firm, who constructed W. H. Wollaston's telescope in 1771. W. Wollaston is feeling better.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8008

From:
George Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.275
Summary:

Will convey JH's note to W. H. Wollaston, who is sinking gradually.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10045

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.380
Summary:

Of mutual friends in England and life in Nantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10047

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.382
Summary:

Seasons greetings and thoughts on JH's upcoming marriage [letter completed 1829-1-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel745

From:
Margaret Brodie Stewart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.27a
Summary:

A reply to JH's declaration of love [see JH's 1828-12-4 to MS; seems intended to encourage JH].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14672

From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0624; Reel 1086
Summary:

Wishes JH well on his visit to Stewart family and to Cambridge. Personal finances. Arrangements for JH's new servant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0381

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
22 December 1828
Source of text:
CUL MS Coll Typographic
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0382

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Martin
Date:
23 December 1828
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday0383

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Dollond
Date:
27 December 1828
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Ryl. Eng. MS. 376/646b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0383a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Benjamin Hawes
Date:
28 December 1828
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4720u

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
After 1828
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7827

From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.30
Summary:

Encloses letter from Edward Ryan to Charles Babbage that JH agreed to forward.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2233

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.500
Summary:

Discovered a mistake in Mr. Perkins's paper published in the Annals of Philosophy. Perkins has not yet corrected the error, although he was requested to do so.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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