Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867)
- Date:
- 1829-1862
- Reference:
- MS.7546/1-15
- Part of:
- Parsons, William, 3rd Earl of Rosse, (1800-1867), and his son Parsons, Laurence, F.R.S., 4th Earl of Rosse, (1840-1908), astronomers
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse: 14 autograph letters, signed by Rosse (except no.2, which is in the third person).
Correspondents include the science writer Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) (no.1) and the civil engineer Charles Manby (1804-1884) (no.13); no.5, describing observations, mentions the astronomer George Biddell Airy (1801-1892).
No.4 has, attached, a newspaper cutting with an account of a Royal Society soirée under Rosse's presidency; no.6 is mounted with the address section of a different letter; nos.8 and 12 are attached to one another; no.14 is the final section of an incomplete letter.
Also includes an addressed envelope in Rosse's hand of a letter no longer present (no.15).
Publication/Creation
1829-1862
Physical description
15 items
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Further Charles Manby correspondence can be found at: MS.7237, MS.7471/66-67, MS.7472, MS.7478, MS.7606/39-42, MS.7620/1-48, MS.7685/1-9 and MS.7844/1-96.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts
Where to find it
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