Poetic fragment from Sir John Herschel
Reference number: HS/26/71
Description
Poetic lines about death in Herschel's hand and signed.
- Reference number
- HS/26/71
- Physical description
- Ink paper
- Page extent
- 1 page
- Format
- Manuscript
Creator names
John Frederick William Herschel
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Sir; John Frederick William Herschel
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John Frederick William Herschel, Sir; John Frederick William Herschel, Poetic fragment from Sir John Herschel, HS/26/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_26_71/poetic-fragment-from-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 13 November 2025
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel , Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS -
Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 26 letters related to specific topics
1823-1854 Reference number: HS/26
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Herschel Letters
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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