Unpublished paper, 'On the wet summer of 1839' by Luke Howard Howard shares that there was heavy rainfall in Yorkshire [England] in the summer of 1839. He presents a table of mean temperature and rainfall each month for the year 1839, and analyses this data. Annotations in pencil throughout. Marked on back as 'Archives 4 June 1840'. Subject: Meteorology Received 23 January 1840. Read 20 February 1840. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie. Written by Howard in Tottenham [London]. Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 4 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On the wet summer of 1839'. 23 June 1840