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Add. MS a/207/101
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Letter from John Herschel
Date(s)
- 5 Jan. 1861 (Production)
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4 pp
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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 the side of Pope - but I flatter myself a good deal more like Homer'.