The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel12822,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel12822
Accepts honor of joining committee at ceremony to lay first stone of new bridge. Proposes including platina copies of standard British measures of length and weight in foundation as part of 'precious records' preserved for posterity.
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
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