Bad weather has prevented him from observing the transit of the comet. Has purchased a refractor similar to the one at Dorpat.
Letter details
Record number
Herschel11343
From
Joseph Johann Littrow
To
Sir John Herschel
Date
[17 December 1826]
Sent from
Vienna
Source of text
RS:HS 11.251
Physical description
ALS 4pp (German)
Additional information
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by
Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by
Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by
Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library