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Letter from John Herschel
Add. MS a/207/1 · Item · 4 Feb. 1817
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Slough - WW and George Peacock have 'absolutely turned his [Babbage] brain by your inflammatory conversation'. Babbage has been 'running analysis mad' and so has JH: 'I really have read and written more in the last fortnight than ever I did in twice the time in any other part of my life and I advise you to go and do likewise'. 'The distress of the poor and the pressure of the times forms the subject of conversation here'.

Add. MS c/56/1 · Item · [1922?]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

Visiting card of Charles Adam, Membre de l'Institut, Recteur de l'Université de Nancy, with note thanking Sir James and Lady Frazer for the copy of 'Sur les traces de Pausanias'.

Add. MS c/59/1 · Item · 18 June [1895]
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

1 Marloes Road, Kensington, W. - Asks if he has come across fire-walking traditions, for a talk to the Folklore Society on points where their work intersects with the 'Psychical people'.