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Incomplete letter, from William Selwyn to Sir John Herschel, dated at Broomfield, Salop

Reference number: HS/15/492

Date: 22 August 1867

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Autographed letter, incomplete. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for a 'corrected edition of Deambulatz.' [?] Angelo Secchi has been at Cambridge. Is making composite photographs showing the activity of the sun and planets in the last year.

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HS/15/492
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22 August 1867
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4 pages
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Manuscript
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William Selwyn

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William Selwyn, Incomplete letter, from William Selwyn to Sir John Herschel, dated at Broomfield, Salop, 22 August 1867, HS/15/492, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_492/incomplete-letter-from-william-selwyn-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-broomfield-salop, accessed on 02 December 2024

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