Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks

Reference number: HS/16/10

Date: 25 February 1840

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Alerts Richard Sheepshanks to the fact that there is an 'underhand sale' of the prints of [H. W.] Pickersgill's portrait of John Frederick William Herschel going on, as John Frederick William Herschel's cousin bought one.

Reference number: HS/16/10
Earliest possible date: 25 February 1840
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks, 25 February 1840, HS/16/10, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_10/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-richard-sheepshanks, accessed on 20 August 2026

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Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 16 Sheepshanks-Spencer
1820-1869 Reference number: HS/16

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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

Dates: 1807 - 1875

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