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Letter, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bromley Common

Reference number: HS/5/155

Date: 21 March 1860

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Autograph letter signed by sender. News of the birth of her grandchild. Husband and two sons are gone back to Ceylon. Hazards and illness while travelling there.

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HS/5/155
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21 March 1860
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25 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 Bromley Common, 21 March 1860, HS/5/155, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_5_155/letter-from-julia-margaret-cameron-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-bromley-common, accessed on 07 March 2026

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