Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. John Frederick William Herschel concerned not so much that a few copies of the print of John Frederick William Herschel's portrait may have been sold, but that the plate itself may have been stolen and sold. Seems relieved to know that the plate was left with the printer, not the engraver. Asks Richard Sheepshanks to make an inquiry with the printer. 2 March 1840