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Autographed draft letter, signed or initialed by sender. Indebted to Charles Bell and friends for their encouragement, but John Frederick William Herschel declines Provost's invitation to be candidate for professorship at Edinburgh University.

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HS/19/67
Earliest possible date
1 December 1832
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Sir Charles Bell, 1 December 1832, HS/19/67, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_19_67/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-sir-charles-bell, accessed on 10 February 2025

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