Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to various correspondents from 1836 to 1870
Reference number: HS/25/15
Date: 1875
Description
Loose copies of letters from John Herschel to Captain [Cadwell] (1 letter); Thomas Maclear (3 letters); Robert Treat Paine (2 letters); J. H. Rutherford (3 letters); Editor of the Times on the topic of "calculating machinery" (1 letter); John Wrottesley (1 letter); George Thomas Napier (1 letter); Richard Sheepshanks (2 letters); William Parsons (Lord Rosse) (1 letter); E. L. Withers (1 letter); George Smith (1 letter); Abbé François-Napoléon-Marie Moigno (2 letters), John Ryall (Queen's College Cork - brother of Mary Everest Boole) (1 letter); Edward Sabine (1 letter); Charles Pritchard (1 letter); James Samuelson (1 letter); Hugh Martin (1 letter); Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth (1 letter).
Letters arranged in rough chronological order for those with possible year, then alphabetical for the undated ones.
The letters are preceded by a typed index pasted over the original wrapper, indicating previous locations (Box n.2.) and previous shelfmark.
Letters copied by various copyists as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father.
- Reference number
- HS/25/15
- Earliest possible date
- 1875
- Physical description
- Blue lined paper, ink and pencil.
- Page extent
- 25 copy letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to various correspondents from 1836 to 1870, 1875, HS/25/15, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_15/copies-of-sir-john-herschels-letters-to-various-correspondents-from-1836-to-1870, accessed on 21 June 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 27 manuscripts:
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Captain Caldwell, dated at Feldhausen
5 January 1836 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/15/1 -
Copy of a draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Thomas Maclear, dated at Feldhausen
20 February 1836 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/15/2 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Robert Treat Paine, dated at Feldhausen
26 August 1836 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/15/3 -
Copy of a draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to J. H. Rutherford, dated at Feldhausen
1 June 1837 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/15/4
This item is part of:
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; 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
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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