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Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine

Reference number: MS/257/2/297

Date: 20 September 1870

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Herschel thanks Sabine for the telegram and has dispatched papers about the absorption power of actinometer liquid. Herschel hopes the letter written in ‘Lady Sabine's handwriting’ does not indicate a serious illness of Sabine.

Reference number
MS/257/2/297
Earliest possible date
20 September 1870
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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John Frederick William Herschel

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John Frederick William Herschel, Letter from John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood to Edward Sabine, 20 September 1870, MS/257/2/297, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ms_257_2_297/letter-from-john-frederick-william-herschel-collingwood-to-edward-sabine, accessed on 22 April 2025

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