St John‘s College Personal Collections

Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to Messrs Taylor and Hessey, from Collingwood

Herschel/Box 1/Letter 30
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17 December 1863

Congratulates John Taylor for title 'Battle of the Standards'. Asks for three more copies for Herschel's sons. Points out one error concerning the measurements of a pyramid.Sends copies of a speech made in Leeds on measurements. Is sure the cause will triumph in the Houses of Parliament

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to S.B. Howlett

Herschel/Box 1/Letter 31
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6 March 1864

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Discussion of sun spots

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 2/James 508.
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1818–1820 (Much of the work is undated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Hyposulphurous and Paper (Using polarized light in analysis of crystals).
Early 'Chrystal' paper (pre-1819).
History of Math (two drafts).
Mathematical Papers
On Coloured Flames (16 numbered pages, a page of sketches of curves (transmitted intensity v. colour))
15 pages of 'computations for optical papers of 1820' for absorption curves and apophyllite (3 varieties), Rochelle salt

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 2/James 510
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1839 (Much of the work is undated.)

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Lunar Theory
Determination of unknown functions
A few pages on Law of Refraction, apparently from the History of Math article, or possibly from 'isoperimetrical problem' as these two sheets appear to have been one.
Isoperimetrical problem
On the chemical action of the rays of the solar spectrum
Photographic MSS, with three pages of 5 interleaved in one spot.
Spectra (emission? absorption?) of photographic papers
Notes on the art of photography or the application of the chemical rays of light to the purposes of pictorial representation. (13 leaves, 1839)

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 3/James 517
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1820

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

'On the rotation in Plagiedial Quartz', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol 1, 43-52, read 17 April 1820.
'On the Development of Tints', Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 1, 20-41, read 24 February 1820.

More sketches here than in published papers with many pages crossed out entirely

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Notebook

Herschel/Box 3/James 518
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1816

Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel

Contents:

Draft of Lacroix translation. (An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus by S. F. Lacroix, translated by Herschel from the French and printed in 1816.) 85 sheets

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams