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HSF - Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and the Herschel family, with related papers
- 1 - Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel
  - 4 - Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, largely with family members

RefNo	HSF/1/4/3
Level	Item
Title	Letter from JFWH [John Frederick William Herschel], to Miss L Herschel [Margaret Louisa Herschel]
Creator	Herschel; Sir John Frederick William; first baronet (1792-1871); British mathematician and astronomer
Recipient	Marshall; Margaret Louisa [née Herschel] (1834-1861); British
Date	5 February 1854
Description	After personal remarks, Herschel writes that on Friday he went to Chevalier Bunsen's fourth conference on the alphabet at which two German professors argued without a result. The conference before 'Wheatstone brought his talking machine, and Herschel gives an account of it, with Darwin's proposition to have 'a huge one to go by steam and roar out orders in battles'. He outlines arrangements for photogtaphs to be sent, perhaps with other parcels of dresses. He saw [Charles] Pritchard and Alex [Alexander Stewart Herschel] at the [Royal] Institution on Friday, when [William Robert] Grove gave an unintelligible lecture on electricity, with fine experiments. Pritchard noted that Willy Duncan had passed Addiscombe creditably.
Extent	4p.
Format	Manuscript
PhysicalDescription	Ink on paper
AccessStatus	Open

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