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.

Reference number: HS/15/492
Earliest possible date: 22 August 1867
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript
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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 14 July 2025

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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 15 Sabine-Selwyn
1820-1870 Reference number: HS/15

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