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Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Dunraven

Reference number: HS/15/133

Date: 10 September 1841

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Mentions a deletion of part of James Ross's dispatch. Clerk is receiving instructions from Charles Riddell before sailing to the Cape of Good Hope, from which observatory he expects a report in eight months. Asks whether

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HS/15/133
Earliest possible date
10 September 1841
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9 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Sabine

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Edward Sabine, Letter, from Edward Sabine to Sir John Herschel, dated at Dunraven, 10 September 1841, HS/15/133, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_133/letter-from-edward-sabine-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-dunraven, accessed on 03 December 2024

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