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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 7 Eardley Wilmot-F

Reference number: HS/7

Date: 1820-1871

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: Frederick Marrow Eardley Wilmot; George Eden, Baron Auckland; Maria Edgeworth; Gilbert Elliot, Earl of Minto; Alexander John Ellis; William Empson; Johann Franz Encke; George Adolph Erman, Frederick John Evans; Fearon Fallows; Michael Faraday ; William Henry Fitton; Robert Fitzroy; James David Forbes; Jean Baptiste Joseph, Baron Fourier; John Franklin.

Reference number
HS/7
Earliest possible date
1820-1871
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; 389 letters
Format
Manuscript

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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 7 Eardley Wilmot-F, 1820-1871, HS/7, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_7/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-7-eardley-wilmot-f, accessed on 11 December 2024

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