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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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    Dates: 1807-1875

    This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.

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