Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to [Robert Gray], Bishop of Cape Town, 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. Recommending Langham Dale to the post of Professor of the South African College. States references and checks, including graduate of Oxford. Herschel has recommended to Dale that he travels to the Dutch Universities of Utrecht & Leiden, which would be well received by the Dutch population in the Cape Colony. 18 June 1847