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Regarding the printing of Herschel's paper and related plates by Ricard Taylor, editor of the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine. With a request for permission on Taylor's behalf to make 750 impressions of plate 15 from Herschel's paper on photography.
[Request granted by Council on 4 May 1843.]

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MC/3/270
Earliest possible date
9 March 1843
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from Sir John F.W. Herschel, Collingwood, to Dr. [Peter Mark] Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society, 9 March 1843, MC/3/270, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/mc_3_270/letter-from-sir-john-fw-herschel-collingwood-to-dr-peter-mark-roget-secretary-of-the-royal-society, accessed on 06 June 2026

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