Letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Gibson Lockhart, dated at Slough
Reference number: HS/19/65
Date: 1 November 1832
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Autograph letter signed by sender. Did not expect payment for John Frederick William Herschel's [review of Mary Somerville's Mechanism of the Heavens] in Quarterly Review. Returns John Murray's remittance. François Arago's 'comet paper' and ensuing panic. Condolences on [death of John Gibson Lockhart's son].
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- 1 November 1832
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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Gibson Lockhart, dated at Slough, 1 November 1832, HS/19/65, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_65/letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-john-gibson-lockhart-dated-at-slough, accessed on 20 April 2025
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