Letter, from Mary Somerville to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Hospital, Chelsea

Reference number: HS/16/331

Date: 6 March 1830

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends first revised pages [of Mary Somerville's Mechanism of the Heavens] back for further opinion. Highly respects John Frederick William Herschel's comments and believes he will be a truthful critic as a friend.

Reference number: HS/16/331
Earliest possible date: 6 March 1830
Page extent: 3 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Mary Somerville

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Mary Somerville, Letter, from Mary Somerville to Sir John Herschel, dated at Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 6 March 1830, HS/16/331, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_331/letter-from-mary-somerville-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-royal-hospital-chelsea, accessed on 25 March 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 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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