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Add. MS a/207/123
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Letter from John Herschel
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- 14 Jan. 1866 (Creation)
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4 pp
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Collingwood - Macmillan are to publish JH's translation of Homer's 'Iliad' and he wishes to dedicate it to WW. On WW's suggestion he sent books one and two to Prof. Arnold [Matthew Arnold]. Bella [Isabella Herschel] 'never ceases talking of you and Mrs. Douglas's kindness to her at Lowestoft'. JH has had another severe attack of bronchitis.
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- Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) 1st Baronet, mathematician and astronomer (Subject)
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) poet and critic (Subject)
- Herschel, Isabella (1832-1893), daughter of Sir John Frederick William Herschel (Subject)
- Douglas, Janet Mary (c. 1830-1922), biographer of William Whewell (Subject)