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Add. MS a/207/42
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Letter from John Herschel
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- 13 Jan. 1840 (Creation)
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2 pp
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JH had hoped that WW may have come to visit. If he had he would have found them all in the tube of the 40 ft reflecting telescope chanting the attached printed requiem ['Requiem of the Forty-Feet Reflector at Slough, Sung on New-Year's Eve, 1839-40'].