Reference number | HS/11 |
Level | SubSeries |
Title | Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 11 Kane-L miscellaneous |
Date | 1821-1870 |
Description | Letters from various correspondents sent to Sir John Herschel, with some drafts of his replies and original letters by Herschel recovered from selected correspondents after his death.
Prominent correspondents include: Robert John Kane; Edward Kater; Henry Kater; Thomas Penyngton Kirkman; Frederick Charles Knowles; Pierre Simon Laplace; Dionysius Lardner; William Lassell; Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier; John Lindley; Joseph Johann Littrow; David Livingstone; Humphry Lloyd; John Augustus Lloyd; Edward Joseph Lowe; John Lubbock, Lord Avebury; Sir John William Lubbock; Charles Lyell. |
Extent | 1 volume; 496 letters |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Documents previously tipped onto guards and bound in blue library buckram with volume information on the spine, in gilt. Disbound in 2023 and loose letters in folders. |
Arrangement | Roughly alphabetical by author; chronological within each correspondence group. |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |