Copy of incomplete letter, from Sir John Herschel to Edward Sabine, dated at [Slough] Copy of incomplete letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Declines to take steps to call a special committee or council meeting of the Royal Society [of London] regarding foreign communications of the observatories, noting his own wish to stay out of Royal Society [of London] affairs. 16 December 1839