Autograph letter, signed, from Herschel to Rev. John William Whittaker, from Slough
- Herschel/Box 1/Letter 15
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- 8 November 1817
Part of Papers of Sir John Herschel
Asks for news from Cambridge, tells of Summer spent walking in Devonshire with Babbage, asks Whittaker to investigate the monetary transactions involved with a room of Herschel's. Notes the death of the philosopher, Delue
Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer