Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 9 R Grahame-Horsburgh
Reference number: HS/9
Date: 1819-1871
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: Robert Grant; Asa Gray; J Henry Griesbach; Stephen Groombridge; William Robert Grove; Hudson Gurney; Wilhelm von Haidinger; Basil Hall; Marshall Hall; William Richard Hamilton; William Vernon Harcourt; Robert Harley; William Henry Harvey; Thomas Henderson; John Russell Hind; Thomas Hodgkin; Henry Holland; William Jackson Hooker; William Hopkins; Leonard Horner; James Horsburgh.
- Reference number
- HS/9
- Earliest possible date
- 1819-1871
- 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; 500 letters
- Format
- Manuscript
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Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 9 R Grahame-Horsburgh, 1819-1871, HS/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_9/correspondence-of-john-frederick-william-herschel-volume-9-r-grahame-horsburgh, accessed on 21 April 2025
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Hierarchy
This volume contains 505 manuscripts:
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Letter, from Robert Grahame, Sr. to Sir John Herschel, dated at Walthamstow
25 March 1819 Creator: Robert of Whitehill Grahame Reference number: HS/9/1 -
Letter, from Robert Grahame, Sr. to Miss Baldwin, dated at Glasgow
30 August 1822 Creator: Robert of Whitehill Grahame Reference number: HS/9/2 -
Letter, from Robert Grahame, Sr. to Sir John Herschel, dated at Glenfair
1 August 1825 Creator: Robert of Whitehill Grahame Reference number: HS/9/3 -
Letter, from Robert Grahame, Sr. to Sir John Herschel, dated at London
21 April 1830 Creator: Robert of Whitehill Grahame Reference number: HS/9/4
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Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
1812-1870 Creator: Sir; John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS
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This collection of nearly 10,900 letters, drafts, copies and notes is the largest repository of scientific correspondence from and to Sir John Herschel, leading figure of Victorian science.
Dates: 1807 - 1875
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