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Document number: 3108
Date: 20 Jan 1874
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HERSCHEL John (Captain)
Collection: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Collection number: 1937-5445
Collection 2: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection 2 number: Acc 22546 [envelope only]
Last updated: 18th April 2012

21 Sumner Place
S W <1>

January 20h 1874

Dear Sir

I fear I must be under a misapprehension in regard to a letter which I supposed myself to have sent you on the 6th of last month. <2> As it should have formed one of several to the principal correspondents of my late father, <3> it is also possible that I missent it, or that your reply may have been mis sent or lost. I venture now to enclose a second Circular <4> on the former assumption.

Yours faithfully
J Herschel

P.S.
I am unhappily restricted, under medical advice, to the strictest economy in the matter of hand-writing.

W.H. Fox Talbot Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. &c
Lacock Abbey. Chippenham

[envelope:]<5>
H. Fox Talbot. Esq.
British Museum
Bloomsbury
W.C.


Lacock Abbey
Chippenham


Lacock Abbey
Nr Chippenham
[note added in pencil on verso in WHFT's hand:] Apr 9, 74


Notes:

1. London.

2. See Doc. No: 00290.

3. Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871), astronomer & scientist.

4. See Doc. No: 03112.

5. There are two letters from Capt Herschel, and two envelopes, for this day [see also Doc. No: 03112]. However, the present one has two stamps, reflecting the enclosure of the circular.

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