The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel6799,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 5 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel6799
Is ready to hear that he is to have a visit from Willie Herschel. Regrets he cannot entertain friends as he used to. Has been laid up with ill-health. Would like information on how to prepare a chemical precipitate as that forming the sun's surface. Warren de La Rue has written to him.
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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