Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell 4?] November, dated at Collingwood
Reference number: HS/25/13/7
Date: 4 November 1846
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Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Gives William Whewell permission to print John Frederick William Herschel's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of John Frederick William Herschel's own. John Frederick William Herschel well along in having his Cape Results in print.
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- HS/25/13/7
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- 4 November 1846
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- 4 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell 4?] November, dated at Collingwood, 4 November 1846, HS/25/13/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_13_7/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-whewell-4-november-dated-at-collingwood, accessed on 12 February 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 25 Copies of outgoing letters
1873-1875 Reference number: HS/25 -
Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to various correspondents with uncertain dates
1875 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/13
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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