Record

RefNoHS/1/353
LevelItem
TitleDraft letter, from Sir John Herschel to D. Francois J. Arago
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date14 February 1830
DescriptionDraft letter. Thanking him for his letter and announcement that he has been made a foreign correspondent of the Royal Academy of Sciences of France. [Also contains part of a letter to J. B. J. Fourier which is copied out fully in HS.21.58.]
LanguageEnglish
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Place originn.p.
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialCopy: HS/21/57
RelatedRecordHS/21/57
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel4970
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA2974Arago; Dominique Francois Jean (1786 - 1853); mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician1786 - 1853
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