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From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.205
Summary:

Concerned about payment for instruments. Has read in newspaper that JH is preparing to study the southern hemisphere. Asks to keep in touch. Will soon go to Paris for transit instrument and another publisher for the translation of JH's work. Problems on account of Revolution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Eugène Burnouf
Date:
12 mars 1833
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1936), p. 759.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1833]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Feeling simply 'dismal.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.278
Summary:

Has glanced over the papers and made a few corrections. Suggests one point for alteration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Dupin
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Mar 1833
Source of text:
MSD 4 / 142, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles May
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.310
Summary:

Has received the glasses from Dr. John Dalton with very minute answers. Dalton gave a paper on this subject in 1794 to the Manchester Society. Will bring them to London tomorrow. Dr. Simms is in a critical condition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
30 Mar – 12 Apr 1833
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

Account of the four-month voyage to Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn, and return. The Fuegians are landed with Richard Matthews [the missionary in charge of them]. Storms, seasickness, hostile savages, and scenery are described. His increasing interest in all branches of natural history makes the hardships worth while. FitzRoy buys a schooner. CD will stay at Rio Negro while it is fitted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar [1833]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 75
Summary:

Sends her love and family news.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 94
Summary:

Writes of the pleasure all feel in CD’s continued good health and joy in his voyage.

Tells of the banana tree he bought, which he sits under and thinks of CD "in similar shade".

CD’s financial accounts are correct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 & 6 Mar 1833
Source of text:
DAR 204: 99
Summary:

Captain Beaufort has offered to get one more letter to CD before the long voyage around the Horn;

SD brings family news up to date.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dupin's brother?
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Mar 1833
Source of text:
MSD 4 / 147, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
21 March [1833]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 3/2.18; Reel 7
Summary:

Thanks JH for clues to interesting star 'near Eta Coronae.' Sends sketches of April [1832?] observations of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.331
Summary:

Unable to help him as Richardson's Brisbane Observations have not yet come to hand. Feels the same as JH does regarding the presentation of the true colors of his parents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
John Frederic Daniell
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
25 March 1833
Source of text:
IET MS SC 3, Electricians’ Album, p.24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
11 Mar 1833
Source of text:
HS 16.401, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
John Taylor
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
28 March 1833
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 March 1833
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
1 March 1833
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 10, f.106
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
2 March 1833
Source of text:
LA MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry William Pickersgill
Date:
4 March 1833
Source of text:
WIHM MS FALF
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project