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HSF - Correspondence of Sir John Frederick William Herschel, and the Herschel family
- 2 - Correspondence of Colonel John Herschel

RefNo	HSF/2/1
Level	File
Title	Letters of John Herschel to Margaret Brodie Herschel and John Frederick William Herschel
Creator	Herschel; John (1837-1921); British army officer and astronomer
Date	1857-1870
Description	Letters from John Herschel to his mother and father, with occasional letters to his sisters. There are also items addressed to his brother Alexander Stewart Herschel [letter 72], to James Thomas Walker [letters 75 and 102] and to James Francis Tennant [letter 105]. Commencing with letters from Herschel's training with the Royal Engineers, at Brompton Barrracks, Chatham, before his regimental service in India, and work with the Great Trigonometrical Survey in British controlled India [now India and Pakistan]. Later correspondence features Herschel's observations of the solar eclipse of 1858 and his spectroscopic work, leading up to his candidacy as a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Extent	113 items
Format	Manuscript
PhysicalDescription	Ink on paper
Arrangement	Chronological
AccessStatus	Open

Fellows associated with this archive

Code	PersonName	Dates
NA7955	Herschel; John (1837 - 1921)	1837 - 1921

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