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Autograph letter signed by sender. Has sent off the last of the letters. Anne Sheepshanks is 83 and still clear in the head. If she visits the Royal Academy, she will see the bust of Augustus De Morgan there.

Reference number
HS/6/443
Earliest possible date
6 May 1873
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan

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Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, Letter, from Sophia E. De Morgan to Margaret Brodie Herschel, dated at 6 Merton Road, 6 May 1873, HS/6/443, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_443/letter-from-sophia-e-de-morgan-to-margaret-brodie-herschel-dated-at-6-merton-road, accessed on 11 May 2026

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