The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel8248,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8248
Rejects offer of payment of £75 for serving as a Commissioner of Longitude, explaining that JH has 'ceased to consider myself a public functionary from the moment I became acquainted with the intentions of Government respecting the dissolution of the Board of Longitude.'
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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