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18 letters from John Frederick William Herschel; 34 letters from Warren de la Rue

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Birth of Constance Anne Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

1855

Sir John Herschel is elected Foreign Associate of the Institut de France

1855

Sir John Herschel resigns from his position as Master of the Mint

1855

1856
1857

Copy of a letter. Thanks for engravings of Saturn and Jupiter; would like to see an astronomical picture book produced.

6 May 1857 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/198

Copy of a letter. Thanks for photograph of the moon.

25 September 1857 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/206
1858

Copy of a letter. Thanks for the lunar photographs; comments on other observations.

13 September 1858 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/237
1859

Copy of a letter. Requests information about specula for telescopes, especially silvered glass ones.

27 August 1859 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/272

Copy of a letter. Further questions about the physical optics of telescopes [see John Frederick William Herschel's 1859-8-27].

8 November 1859 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/284
1860

Sir John Herschel publishes in the Proceedings of the Royal Society

1860: Sir John Herschel publishes some “Remarks on colour-blindness" extracted from a referee report on Pole’s paper on the same subject.

1861

Death of Margaret Louisa Marshall, née Herschel, daughter of John Frederick William Herschel and Margaret Brodie Stewart

1861

William Morris established the decorative design firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Company (later Morris & Company)

1861

Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations as a three-volume book

1861

Sir John Herschel publishes Physical Geography as part of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

1861

Abraham Lincoln begins his term as President of the United States

4 March 1861

Copy of a letter. Thanks for pictures of Mars; speculates on the atmospheres of some planets.

7 November 1861 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/23/346
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1863
1864
1865
1866

Sir John Herschel publishes his translation of Homer’s Iliad

1866

1867

Sir John Herschel publishes Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects

1867

1868

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister

1 February 1868

William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister

1 December 1868

1869

Jules Verne serializes Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

1869: (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers)

1870

Autograph letter signed by sender. Has written to Kew Observatory to send on the photographs.

25 April 1870 Sender: Warren de la Rue Reference number: HS/6/170

Copy of a letter. Inquires about other sunspot observations made by John Frederick William Herschel.

23 April 1870 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/305
1871

Death of Sir John Herschel, at Collingwood, Kent

11 May 1871

Sir John Herschel is buried at Westminster Abbey

19 May 1871

Copy of a letter. Comments on sunspot activity.

11 February 1871 Sender: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/24/354