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Letter, from Julia Margaret Cameron to Sir John Herschel, dated at Freshwater Bay

Reference number: HS/5/173

Date: 23 October 1866?

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is grateful for the volumes. Hopes his poetry endeavors will succeed. John Taylor is now at East Sheen. She has won a medal for photography at Southampton.

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HS/5/173
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23 October 1866?
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12 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 Freshwater Bay, 23 October 1866?, HS/5/173, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_5_173/letter-from-julia-margaret-cameron-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-freshwater-bay, accessed on 07 March 2026

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