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Letter, from Richard Taylor to Sir John Herschel, dated at Red Lion Court

Reference number: HS/17/341

Date: 2 February 1843

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has 50 copies of John Frederick William Herschel's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for Philosophical Magazine printed exclusively for John Frederick William Herschel. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.

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HS/17/341
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2 February 1843
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Richard Taylor

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Richard Taylor, Letter, from Richard Taylor to Sir John Herschel, dated at Red Lion Court, 2 February 1843, HS/17/341, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_17_341/letter-from-richard-taylor-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-red-lion-court, accessed on 24 January 2026

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