Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 6 D
Reference number: HS/6
Date: 1820-1873
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.
Prominent correspondents include: John Dalton; John Frederick Daniell; Charles Darwin; Charles Giles Bridle Daubery; Humphry Davy; Martin Davy; William Rutter Dawes; Henry Thomas de la Beche; Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre; Warren de la Rue; Augustus de Morgan, Charles Dickens, George Dollond; Pierre Louis Dubry; Jean Baptiste Andrew Dumas; Edward Dunkin; Benjamin D'Urban.
- Reference number
- HS/6
- Earliest possible date
- 1820-1873
- 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
- 1 volume; 519 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 6 D, 1820-1873, HS/6, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-6-d, accessed on 11 December 2024
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 521 manuscripts:
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Letter, from John Henry Dallmeyer to Sir John Herschel, dated at 19 Bloomsbury St.
13 August 1861 Creator: John Henry Dallmeyer Reference number: HS/6/1 -
Letter, from John Henry Dallmeyer to Sir John Herschel, dated at 19 Bloomsbury St.
24 September 1866 Creator: John Henry Dallmeyer Reference number: HS/6/2 -
Letter, from John Henry Dallmeyer to Sir John Herschel, dated at 19 Bloomsbury St.
14 February 1867 Creator: John Henry Dallmeyer Reference number: HS/6/3 -
Draft letter, from Sir John Herschel to John Henry Dallmeyer, dated at Collingwood
16 February 1867 Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/6/4
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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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