| RefNo | MC/3/291 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from Sir John F W [Frederick William] Herschel, Collingwood, to the Marquis of Northampton, [President of the Royal Society] |
| Date | 21 June 1843 |
| Description | Updating the Council on the current state of the Cape Observation and deficiencies that need to be corrected, including for the observation of the Great Comet in March 1843. He offers an overview of the instruments and the types of repairs needed, including for his father's Newtonian reflector.
[Council to re-equip the observatory in cooperation with Admiralty, see related records.]
[The last four pages are on a separate sheet, labelled within the volume as MC/3/291a.] |
| Extent | 8p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | University of Texas: H/L-0285 |
| RelatedRecord | CMP/1/173 |
| MC/3/296 |
| URL | Also available on Epsilon: https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel3436 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |
| NA2272 | Compton; Spencer Joshua Alwyne (1790 - 1851); 2nd Marquess of Northampton | 1790 - 1851 |