The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel7157,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 14 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel7157
Wife and family are on holiday at Portmadoc. Obtains his rhymes from Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England. Relates a tale of how a priest tricked a farmer in medieval times.
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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