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Autograph letter signed by sender. Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for John Frederick William Herschel's aunt Caroline.

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HS/11/59
Earliest possible date
April 1847
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Robert John Kane

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Robert John Kane, Robert John Kane, Letter, from Anne Elise Knipping to Sir John Herschel, dated at Hanover, April 1847, HS/11/59, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_11_59/letter-from-anne-elise-knipping-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-hanover, accessed on 13 June 2026

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