Item 26 - Letter from John Herschel

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Add. MS a/207/26

Title

Letter from John Herschel

Date(s)

  • 9 May 1835 (Creation)

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4 pp

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Scope and content

Feldhausen near Wynberg - JH would like to begin a work 'towards the inductive construction of a system of ethicks. I think there is room for such a work and that it is wanted'. He describes his trip to the mountains on the other side of the Cape flats: 'read more

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