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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Sykes, dated at [Slough?]

Reference number: HS/17/140

Date: 12 April 1839

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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Thanks William Henry Sykes for offer of professorship of astronomy at Oxford, but declines it, partly because of other pursuits and health reasons, and considers his astronomical career terminated.

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HS/17/140
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12 April 1839
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1 page
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Sykes, dated at [Slough?], 12 April 1839, HS/17/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_17_140/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-henry-sykes-dated-at-slough, accessed on 11 August 2026

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