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Letter, from Mary Somerville to Sir John Herschel, dated at Florence

Reference number: HS/16/359

Date: 14 April 1857

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks John Frederick William Herschel for critiquing her paper during his illness. Mary Somerville's On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences is to be published in translation at Cesna.

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HS/16/359
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14 April 1857
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Mary Somerville

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Mary Somerville, Letter, from Mary Somerville to Sir John Herschel, dated at Florence, 14 April 1857, HS/16/359, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_16_359/letter-from-mary-somerville-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-florence, accessed on 25 March 2025

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