Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Hyde Wollaston Contemporary copy in sender's hand, signed by sender. Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. John Frederick William Herschel not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.' 13 February 1827