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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks for his letter. Sorry to hear that John Frederick William Herschel's name is not on the Register, but can they add his name to John Lubbock's Committee? His father is very ill.

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HS/11/354
Earliest possible date
22 May 1865
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Lubbock

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John Lubbock, Letter, from John Lubbock to Sir John Herschel, dated at Chislehurst, 22 May 1865, HS/11/354, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_11_354/letter-from-john-lubbock-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-chislehurst, accessed on 19 March 2025

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