Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 11 Kane-L miscellaneous
Reference number: HS/11
Date: 1821-1870
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: Robert John Kane; Edward Kater; Henry Kater; Thomas Penyngton Kirkman; Frederick Charles Knowles; Pierre Simon Laplace; Dionysius Lardner; William Lassell; Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier; John Lindley; Joseph Johann Littrow; David Livingstone; Humphry Lloyd; John Augustus Lloyd; Edward Joseph Lowe; John Lubbock, Lord Avebury; Sir John William Lubbock; Charles Lyell.
- Reference number
- HS/11
- Earliest possible date
- 1821-1870
- 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; 496 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 11 Kane-L miscellaneous, 1821-1870, HS/11, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_11/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-11-kane-l-miscellaneous, accessed on 11 December 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 483 manuscripts:
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Letter, from Robert John Kane to Sir John Herschel, dated at Dublin
8 September 1846 Creator: Robert John Kane Reference number: HS/11/1 -
Letter, from Robert John Kane to Sir John Herschel, dated at 51 Stephens Green, Dublin
24 September 1847 Creator: Robert John Kane Reference number: HS/11/2 -
Letter, from Robert John Kane to Sir John Herschel, dated at Dublin
10 December 1848 Creator: Robert John Kane Reference number: HS/11/3 -
Letter, from Robert John Kane to Sir John Herschel, dated at 51 Stephens Green, Dublin
5 January 1849 Creator: Robert John Kane Reference number: HS/11/4
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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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