The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel885,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel885
The letter contains financial arrangements with son John while still in England, extensive comments on the fighting and restructuring of the colonial system in India, some matters relating to earth strata, and finally an extended discussion of the 'Cavendish experiment' [for measuring the gravitational attraction between lead balls].
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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