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Letter, from Augustus De Morgan to Sir John Herschel, dated at 91 Adelaide Road

Reference number: HS/6/386

Date: 31 August 1866

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Autograph letter signed by sender. Thought that John Frederick William Herschel and Charles Babbage were of the same year, but Cambridge Calendar shows differently; can John Frederick William Herschel solve the puzzle? Visited H. Crabb Robinson yesterday who gave him some sonnets that had been addressed to Wordsworth. Regarding the 1st edition of the Eikon basilike. Reason for Sir James South's knighthood.

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HS/6/386
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31 August 1866
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4 pages
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Augustus de Morgan

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Augustus de Morgan, Letter, from Augustus De Morgan to Sir John Herschel, dated at 91 Adelaide Road, 31 August 1866, HS/6/386, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_386/letter-from-augustus-de-morgan-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-91-adelaide-road, accessed on 11 December 2024

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