Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 16 Sheepshanks-Spencer
Reference number: HS/16
Date: 1820-1869
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Richard Sheepshanks; Alfred Smee; Andrew Smith; Charles Piazzi Smyth; Mary Somerville; William Somerville; Sir James South.
Also contains a letter from James South to Sir William Herschel introducing himself and asking for a contribution towards a fund to place a bust of Edward Troughton in Greenwich Observatory (HS/16/412).
- Reference number
- HS/16
- Earliest possible date
- 1820-1869
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 496 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Citation
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 16 Sheepshanks-Spencer, 1820-1869, HS/16, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-16-sheepshanks-spencer, accessed on 07 December 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 495 manuscripts:
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Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at 30 Woburn Place
1830 Creator: Richard Sheepshanks Reference number: HS/16/1 -
Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at 30 Woburn Place
7 January 1833 Creator: Richard Sheepshanks Reference number: HS/16/2 -
Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at 30 Woburn Place
22 July 1835 Creator: Richard Sheepshanks Reference number: HS/16/3 -
Incomplete letter, from Sir John Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks, dated at [Feldhausen]
24 October 1835 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/16/4
This item is part of:
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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