Copy of draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Miles Bland
Reference number: HS/21/78
Date: January 1831
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Copy of draft letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Takes a lively interest in his application for a professorship at Durham. Remembers him gratefully as his coach for mathematics while at Cambridge.
- Reference number
- HS/21/78
- Earliest possible date
- January 1831
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Sir; John Frederick William Herschel
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John Frederick William Herschel, Sir; John Frederick William Herschel, Copy of draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Miles Bland, January 1831, HS/21/78, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_21_78/copy-of-draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-miles-bland, accessed on 13 November 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 21 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/21
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Miles Bland
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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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