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Letter, from Sir William Pole to Sir John Herschel, dated at 3 Storey's Gate

Reference number: HS/14/29

Date: 18 March 1869

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Notices in letter of last May John Frederick William Herschel's postscript about the rate of color blindness occurring to overworked or ill artists, and doubts it becomes di-chromic, but merely a 'weakness' of vision.

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HS/14/29
Earliest possible date
18 March 1869
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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William Pole

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William Pole, Letter, from Sir William Pole to Sir John Herschel, dated at 3 Storey's Gate, 18 March 1869, HS/14/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_14_29/letter-from-sir-william-pole-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-3-storeys-gate, accessed on 16 March 2026

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