The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel4353,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel4353
Sends JH bulbs of Cape flowers to plant. Thanks him for sending JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Describes the obelisk placed on JH's telescope site at Feldhausen. Reports of effort to install improved roads in the colony. Construction of St. George's Church completed. Describes planned Botanical Garden at the Cape.
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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