Copy of a letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Richard Sheepshanks, 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. About an error in the annual report of the Royal Astronomical Society; would Richard Sheepshanks give some thought to a suitable candidate for the post of astronomer at Trivandrum, made vacant by the death of John Caldecott. 15 March 1850