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Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Francis Baily, dated at Feldhausen

Reference number: HS/25/4/13

Date: 17 August 1835

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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. Sending some observations of double stars. Has had some of the sheets of the Brisbane Catalogue. His recent observations. Domestic affairs in the Cape of Good Hope.

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HS/25/4/13
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17 August 1835
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Francis Baily, dated at Feldhausen, 17 August 1835, HS/25/4/13, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_4_13/copy-of-a-letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-to-francis-baily-dated-at-feldhausen, accessed on 17 March 2026

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