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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Collingwood</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Responds to William Whewell's comments on John Frederick William Herschel's Iliad translation. Is preparing a 'General Index Catalogue of Nebulae,' with help from computists supplied by G. B. Airy. Asks William Whewell to recommend John Frederick William Herschel's son Alexander for a professorship at the Andersonian University of Glasgow.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>10 April 1862</dc:date>
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