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Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Dionysius Lardner, dated at Isle of Wight

Reference number: HS/11/107

Date: 25 July 1828

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Draft letter with extensive revisions and crossing outs in John Herschel's hand. Written at the back of Notice of Council Meeting at the Royal Society of London for 22 May 1828 signed by James Hudson; of a letter by W.S. Stratford regarding a finance committee already used by John Herschel as draft paper for mathematical reckonings; as well as at the back of a letter from Michael Faraday to Sir John Herschel noting a meeting with Mr Dolland. In the letter to Lardner, Herschel has been contemplating a larger work on Light, but thinks he may be able to write a shorter, more popular work for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Wonders who the other contributors will be.

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HS/11/107
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25 July 1828
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3 pages
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Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Dionysius Lardner, dated at Isle of Wight, 25 July 1828, HS/11/107, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_11_107/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-dionysius-lardner-dated-at-isle-of-wight, accessed on 10 July 2025

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