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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Hyde Wollaston

Reference number: HS/18/282

Date: 13 February 1827

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Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. John Frederick William Herschel not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.'

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HS/18/282
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13 February 1827
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3 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Hyde Wollaston, 13 February 1827, HS/18/282, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_18_282/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-hyde-wollaston, accessed on 17 September 2026

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