Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks
Reference number: HS/25/9/79
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Copy of a letter. Agrees to provide some written work which will go into the report of the weights and measures commission[?].
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- HS/25/9/79
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks, HS/25/9/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_25_9_79/copy-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-richard-sheepshanks, accessed on 09 February 2026
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This item is part of:
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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 Richard Sheepshanks, from October 1835 to 25 April 1860
1873 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , John Herschel Reference number: HS/25/9
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Richard Sheepshanks
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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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