Letter, from Robert Treat Paine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass.
Reference number: HS/13/212
Date: 16 January 1838
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Sending hourly observations of 21 and 22 Dec. last. Comments on the weather during the winter. Performance of the shooting stars in November was poor. Hopes that John Frederick William Herschel will visit the United States on his way from Brazil to England.
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- HS/13/212
- Earliest possible date
- 16 January 1838
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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Robert Treat Paine, Letter, from Robert Treat Paine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Boston, Mass., 16 January 1838, HS/13/212, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_13_212/letter-from-robert-treat-paine-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-boston-mass, accessed on 13 June 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 13 M miscellaneous-Plana
1812-1869 Reference number: HS/13
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