Incomplete letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at 16 Belgrave Square

Reference number: HS/12/409

Date: 12 March 1846

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Autographed letter, incomplete. Thanks for his congratulations. Gives a resume of the events leading up to the knighthood. Saw Hugh Falconer yesterday. Sister-in-law has just died.

Reference number: HS/12/409
Earliest possible date: 12 March 1846
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Roderick Impey Murchison, Incomplete letter, from Roderick Impey Murchison to Sir John Herschel, dated at 16 Belgrave Square, 12 March 1846, HS/12/409, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_12_409/incomplete-letter-from-roderick-impey-murchison-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-16-belgrave-square, accessed on 13 September 2026

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 12 Macann-Murray
1825-1870 Reference number: HS/12

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