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Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Heinrich Christian Schumacher

Reference number: HS/15/387

Date: 17 January 1841

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Discusses a letter in which John Frederick William Herschel explains why John Frederick William Herschel cannot, as a British subject, accept the foreign order offered him [by the Danish king]. Asks Heinrich Christian Sc

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HS/15/387
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17 January 1841
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3 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Heinrich Christian Schumacher, 17 January 1841, HS/15/387, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_387/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-heinrich-christian-schumacher, accessed on 10 June 2026

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