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Karl Friedrich Gauss
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for her communication on her nephew's new calculations for Alpha Virginis. Comments on these and gives some of his own. Sends best wishes to her nephew on his projected visit {to the Cape] and hopes he will study the magnetic force of the earth while he is there.
12 April 1833 Sender: Karl Friedrich Gauss Reference number: HS/8/75
Copy of a letter. Sends on a copy of John Frederick William Herschel's orbital elements for Gamma Virginis.
3 April 1833 Sender: Caroline Lucretia Herschel Reference number: HS/21/133