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RefNoHS/23/337
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Stanley Jevons, dated at Collingwood
CreatorJohn Frederick William Herschel
Date30 July 1861
DescriptionCopy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Thanks William Jevons for his papers on clouds [see William Jevons's 1861-7-21]. John Frederick William Herschel had not seen these, but praises their contents.
LanguageEnglish
Extent3pp
FormatManuscript
Place originCollingwood, Hawkhurst, Kent
Origin coordinates51.035306, 0.513556
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialOriginal available: John Rylands University Library of Manchester
URLDescriptionAlso available on Epsilon
URLhttps://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel8790
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
NA6360Jevons; William Stanley (1835 - 1882); economist1835 - 1882
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