Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Fox Talbot, dated at Slough
Reference number: HS/25/5/12
Date: 12 February 1839
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Copy letter in John Herschel's hand. John Frederick William Herschel will as William Henry Fox Talbot requests stop mentioning John Frederick William Herschel's hyposulfite fixing process and await publication of William Henry Fox Talbot's process. Reports in detail on some of John Frederick William Herschel's experiments relating to photography and to spectrum analysis. [In a P.S. dated 1839-2-13,] John Frederick William Herschel states: 'I have discovered your secret of fixing [or its] equivalent.'
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- HS/25/5/12
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- 12 February 1839
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- 4 pages
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Henry Fox Talbot, dated at Slough, 12 February 1839, HS/25/5/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_5_12/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-william-henry-fox-talbot-dated-at-slough, accessed on 24 March 2025
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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 -
Copy book of Sir John Herschel's outgoing correspondence, vol. 5, from 23 February 1836 to 29 November 1839
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/5
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Dates: 1807 - 1875
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