| Reference number | HS/19 |
| Level | SubSeries |
| Title | Correspondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 19 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. It also contains various summaries of correspondences, enclosures from letters in the rest of the correspondence, as well as scraps, notes and wrappers for the correspondence.
Primary correspondents are William Birt; Henry Kater; Bessel; Bode; Bouvard; Brewster; Frauenhofer; Gauss; Laplace; Littrow; Olbers; Pfaff; Schumacher; Struve; Walbeck; Richard Jones; J Henderson; Byam; Young; South; Grahame; Dietrich Herschel; Peacock; Maria Edgeworth; D. Smith; W. Watson; Davenport; Mrs Kater; Babbage; Herapth; Styles; Fitton; Hudson Gurney; Lockhart; King of Denmark; Lady Ada Lovelace; Babinet; Villarceau; R. Wolf; A Wylie; H. Airy; R. Airy.
The contents of volume 19 were found too late to be filed in proper sequences when the volumes where originally bound in the 1940s by the Royal Society archivists. |
| Extent | 1 volume; 313 items |
| 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. |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |