To Stephen Peter Rigaud [25 March 1829]

The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.

Please cite as “Herschel8710,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8710

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Thanks SR for letter announcing SR's discovery of observation of comet of 1759 [see SR's 1829-3-18]. Asks SR to communicate information directly to [F. W.] Bessel. Will keep SR's letter confidential.

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Record number: Herschel8710
From: Sir John Herschel
To: Stephen Peter Rigaud
Date: [25 March 1829]
Sent from: Leamington, Warwick
Source of text: Bodleian Library, Oxford (C: RS:HS 21.44)
Physical description: ALS 2pp

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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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To Stephen Peter Rigaud [25 March 1829]

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