Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry Goulburn, dated at [London]
Reference number: HS/27/51
Date: 16 September 1842
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Draft letter. Writes to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to give John Frederick William Herschel's opinion about the probable utility of continuing to spend money on Charles Babbage's calculating machine.
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- HS/27/51
- Earliest possible date
- 16 September 1842
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- 11 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Frederick William Herschel, Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to Henry Goulburn, dated at [London], 16 September 1842, HS/27/51, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_27_51/draft-letter-from-sir-john-herschel-to-henry-goulburn-dated-at-london, accessed on 07 September 2026
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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 27 letters related to specific topics
1826-1866 Reference number: HS/27
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John Frederick William Herschel
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Henry Goulburn
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