| Description | Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. John Frederick William Herschel, in preparing to leave Cape, thanks William Samuel Stratford for having sent Nautical Almanacs to him there. Discusses motions of a comet appearing to move whimsically, the periodical star alpha Hydrae, other stars, and the re-discovery of Saturn's sixth satellite. |
| Place origin | Feldhausen, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa |