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Reference numberHS/5
LevelSubSeries
TitleCorrespondence of John Frederick William Herschel: volume 5 B miscellaneous-C
Date1815-1871
DescriptionLetters 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.

Primary correspondents include: John Ball; Christopher Henryk Diderick Buys Ballot; Joseph Banks; John Barlow; John Barrow; Antoine Cesar Becquerel; Sir Charles Bell; Jons Jacob Berzelius; Baron George Best; Charles Blagden; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Henry Samuel Boase; John Theophilus Boileau; George Boole; Alexis Bouvard; William Thomas Brande; Thomas Makdougall Brisbane; William Brockenden; Charles James Fox Banbury; Julia Margaret Cameron, James Challis, Alexander Ross Clarke, William Crookes, Georges Christian Leopold Dagobert, Baron du Cuvier.
Extent385 letters
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionDocuments 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.
ArrangementRoughly alphabetical by author; chronological within each correspondence group.
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NotesNote re letter number 124 in Volume 5, lft by Dr Joan Leopold, 2017; 'This would be in 1854, not 1834, when Bunsen and MaxMuller were doing a proposal for a Missionary Alphabet'
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8238Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer1792 - 1871
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