The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel14477,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel14477
Treasury commissioners admit merits of claims by Mint officers, whom JH supports, but does not agree to pay raises. Calculating salaries for more years than officers have actually served would set bad precedent for other public offices.
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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