Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Wood
Reference number: HS/20/239
Date: 1826-10-13 plus
Description
Copy of a letter. Learned of vacancy in Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge. Wrote to [T. W.] Hornbuckle explaining why John Frederick William Herschel declines. Asks James Wood's support for Charles Babbage.
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- HS/20/239
- Earliest possible date
- 1826-10-13 plus
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- 2 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Wood, 1826-10-13 plus, HS/20/239, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_20_239/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-james-wood, accessed on 08 March 2026
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 20 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/20
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Herschel Letters
This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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