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  <dc:title>Copy of an incomplete letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks, dated at [Feldhausen]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of incomplete letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Provides list of desiderata for activities for observatories of the '2nd and 3rd classes.' Reports his progress from the Cape, and his inability as yet to see Halley's or Encke's comet.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 October 1835</dc:date>
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