| Description | Dorothy is 'a trump' for taking so much trouble with Herscheliana and copying so many letters. 'How amusing to see the surprise of the three emissaries from the Societies, when they saw the bulk & weight of those boxes'. He notes some details associated with the transfers of papers. Listening to the radio, he heard the Admiralty's appeal for chronometers, elaborately described. This corresponded exactly to the one which John Frederick William Herschel and Colonel John Herschel used. John made careful notes of its behaviour and the timepiece and box are somewhere in Observatory House. Since the Admiralty want chronometers even if they are one hundred years old, he feels it is their duty to offer the one they have. He asks if Dorothy can find it, if she concurs with his opinion, and if she could send information on the maker, number, and date. He would offer it to the Admiralty on loan, with the risk of loss. He concludes by asking for adaptors for electric lighting. |