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Autograph letter signed by sender. Hopes that John Frederick William Herschel will not be absent from the Poll as great harm will be done if he is. Has circulated his letter.

Reference number
HS/6/446
Earliest possible date
December 1832
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune

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John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune, Letter, from John Elliot Drinkwater-Bethune to Sir John Herschel, December 1832, HS/6/446, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_446/letter-from-john-elliot-drinkwater-bethune-to-sir-john-herschel, accessed on 12 December 2024

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