Letter, from Sir William Huggins to Sir John Herschel, dated at Upper Tulse Hill

Reference number: HS/10/61

Date: 28 September 1870

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has had a letter from Cleveland Abbe inquiring when John Frederick William Herschel's Catalogue of Double Stars can be expected. Howard and Thomas Grubb have just erected his telescope but the eye end is not finished. Instrument will be very 'handy.'

Reference number: HS/10/61
Earliest possible date: 28 September 1870
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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William Huggins, Letter, from Sir William Huggins to Sir John Herschel, dated at Upper Tulse Hill, 28 September 1870, HS/10/61, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_10_61/letter-from-sir-william-huggins-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-upper-tulse-hill, accessed on 14 June 2025

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 10 Howard-J miscellaneous
1816-1871 Reference number: HS/10

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Dates: 1807 - 1875

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