Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 10 Howard-J miscellaneous
Reference number: HS/10
Date: 1816-1871
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Luke Howard; Frederick Howlett; William Huggins; Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt; Robert Hunt; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir Robert Harry Inglis; James Ivory; Henry James; Henry A Jeffreys; Thomas Best Jervis; William Stanley Jevons; Manuel John Johnson; Henry Bence Jones; Richard Jones; James Prescott Joule.
- Reference number
- HS/10
- Earliest possible date
- 1816-1871
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 451 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 10 Howard-J miscellaneous, 1816-1871, HS/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_10/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-10-howard-j-miscellaneous, accessed on 14 May 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 455 manuscripts:
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Luke Howard, dated at Slough
16 June 1839 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/10/1 -
Letter, from Luke Howard to Sir John Herschel, dated at Ackworth
11 July 1839 Creator: Luke Howard Reference number: HS/10/2 -
Letter, from Luke Howard to Sir John Herschel, dated at Ackworth
22 February 1840 Creator: Luke Howard Reference number: HS/10/3 -
Letter, from Luke Howard to Sir John Herschel, dated at Tottenham
21 March 1840 Creator: Luke Howard Reference number: HS/10/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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Herschel Letters
This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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