Letter, from Owen Stanley to Isabella [?] Herschel, dated at 38 Lower Brook St.
Reference number: HS/17/229
Date: 29 June 1846
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thanks and suggests date for dinner invitation. Reports on trip to Torres Straits and New Guinea. Updates on progress of OS's ship Rattlesnake and lack of midshipmen, and health of a Catherine (his sister?).
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- HS/17/229
- Earliest possible date
- 29 June 1846
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Owen Stanley, Letter, from Owen Stanley to Isabella [?] Herschel, dated at 38 Lower Brook St., 29 June 1846, HS/17/229, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_17_229/letter-from-owen-stanley-to-isabella-herschel-dated-at-38-lower-brook-st, accessed on 18 June 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 17 Stark-V miscellaneous
1821-1870 Reference number: HS/17
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