Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 19 Miscellaneous
Reference number: HS/19
Date: 1821-1870
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death. It also contains various summaries of correspondences, enclosures from letters in the rest of the correspondence, as well as scraps, notes and wrappers for the correspondence.
Primary correspondents are William Birt; Henry Kater; Bessel; Bode; Bouvard; Brewster; Frauenhofer; Gauss; Laplace; Littrow; Olbers; Pfaff; Schumacher; Struve; Walbeck; Richard Jones; J Henderson; Byam; Young; South; Grahame; Dietrich Herschel; Peacock; Maria Edgeworth; D. Smith; W. Watson; Davenport; Mrs Kater; Babbage; Herapth; Styles; Fitton; Hudson Gurney; Lockhart; King of Denmark; Lady Ada Lovelace; Babinet; Villarceau; R. Wolf; A Wylie; H. Airy; R. Airy.
The contents of volume 19 were found too late to be filed in proper sequences when the volumes where originally bound in the 1940s by the Royal Society archivists.
- Reference number
- HS/19
- Earliest possible date
- 1821-1870
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 1 volume; 313 items
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 19 Miscellaneous, 1821-1870, HS/19, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-19-miscellaneous, accessed on 03 December 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 336 manuscripts:
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Summaries of letters between Sir John Frederick William Herschel and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
1821-1822 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/19/1 -
Summaries of letters between Sir John Frederick William Herschel and Johann Elert Bode
1821 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/19/2 -
Summaries of letters between Sir John Frederick William Herschel and Alexis Bouvard
1820-1824 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/19/3 -
Summaries of letters between Sir John Frederick William Herschel and David Brewster
1822-1824 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/19/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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