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Letter, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, dated at Putney Heath

Reference number: HS/5/154

Date: 25 October 1858

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Her daughter is shortly to be married to Charles Norman. News of the defects of vision in her children and her anxieties regarding it.

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HS/5/154
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25 October 1858
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32 pages
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Manuscript

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Julia Margaret Cameron

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Julia Margaret Cameron, Letter, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, dated at Putney Heath, 25 October 1858, HS/5/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_5_154/letter-from-julia-margaret-cameron-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-putney-heath, accessed on 07 March 2026

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