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Autograph letter signed by sender. A friend of hers is writing a memoir of her brother Thomas Drummond, and would be glad for a few minutes conversation with John Frederick William Herschel.

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HS/6/449
Earliest possible date
4 April 1865
Page extent
1 page
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Manuscript

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Elizabeth [Jr.] Drummond

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Elizabeth [Jr.] Drummond, Letter, from Elizabeth Drummond [Jr.] to Sir John Herschel, dated at Portobello, Edinburgh, 4 April 1865, HS/6/449, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_449/letter-from-elizabeth-drummond-jr-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-portobello-edinburgh, accessed on 18 July 2025

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    Dates: 1807 - 1875

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