Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 5 B miscellaneous-C
Reference number: HS/5
Date: 1815-1871
Description
Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Primary correspondents include: John Ball; Christopher Henryk Diderick Buys Ballot; Joseph Banks; John Barlow; John Barrow; Antoine Cesar Becquerel; Sir Charles Bell; Jons Jacob Berzelius; Baron George Best; Charles Blagden; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Henry Samuel Boase; John Theophilus Boileau; George Boole; Alexis Bouvard; William Thomas Brande; Thomas Makdougall Brisbane; William Brockenden; Charles James Fox Banbury; Julia Margaret Cameron, James Challis, Alexander Ross Clarke, William Crookes, Georges Christian Leopold Dagobert, Baron du Cuvier.
- Reference number
- HS/5
- Earliest possible date
- 1815-1871
- Physical description
- Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders.
- Page extent
- 385 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 5 B miscellaneous-C, 1815-1871, HS/5, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_5/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-5-b-miscellaneous-c, accessed on 21 January 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 393 manuscripts:
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Letter, from E. L. Beutenmuller to Sir John Herschel, dated at Farnbuck Place
20 June 1846 Creator: Edna Libby Beutenmuller Reference number: HS/5/1 -
Letter, from E. L. Beutenmuller to Sir John Herschel
29 October 1846 Creator: Edna Libby Beutenmuller Reference number: HS/5/2 -
Letter, from P. W. D. Baddeley to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bonn
18 January 1861 Creator: P. W. D. Baddeley Reference number: HS/5/3 -
Letter, from P. W. D. Baddeley to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bonn
1 March 1861 Creator: P. W. D. Baddeley Reference number: HS/5/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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