Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Collingwood Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Gives corrections to the proof copy of John Frederick William Herschel's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted. 6 November 1846