Item 101 - Letter from John Herschel

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Add. MS a/207/101

Title

Letter from John Herschel

Date(s)

  • 5 Jan. 1861 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

4 pp

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Scope and content

Collingwood - JH is preparing 'a popular lecture on the sun adapted to the meridian of our Hawkhurst trades folks and farmers'. He is also producing a translation of the first book of the 'Iliad' into hexameters: 'It is shockingly bald and homely by theread more

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