Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Robert FitzRoy
Reference number: HS/23/311
Date: 22 October 1860
Description
Copy of a letter, incomplete. Asks for information about wrecks at sea and lives lost.
- Reference number
- HS/23/311
- Earliest possible date
- 22 October 1860
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Incomplete copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Robert FitzRoy, 22 October 1860, HS/23/311, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_23_311/incomplete-copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-robert-fitzroy, accessed on 14 June 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 23 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/23
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Robert FitzRoy
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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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