RefNo | HSF/1/3/64 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from C [Charles] Pritchard, Observatory, Oxford University, to 'Miss Herschel' |
Creator | Pritchard; Charles (1808-1893); British astronomer |
Date | 16 January 1880 |
Description | He asks for a list of her grandfather's medals and distinctions, and for her [great] aunt's medal from the King of Prussia. The notice on William Herschel for Enclyclopaedia Britannica is near completion. Pritchard has re-read William Herschel's memoirs in Philosophical Transactions: Struve called him England's ablest astronomer and Pritchard calls him 'the Hipparchus of the Modern'. He describes his visit to Slough, with one [unnamed] member of the Herschel family. They visited the tomb, and found the 'zone clock' which Pritchard persuaded her brother to take away and clean it; it was in the tube. The big telescope was wonderful, but among the least of Herschel's achievements. |
Extent | 4p. |
Format | Manuscript |
PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper |
AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA5459 | Pritchard; Charles (1808 - 1893) | 1808 - 1893 |