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Excellent Steve! If the object had been named and was in common currency, her description/'translation' would have been superfluous. While Emma was a respected science/astronomy writer, it is also possible that she was unaware of the name. But it might also be reasonable to assume that the name, if any, hadn't really taken hold. This despite the passage of some forty years since John Herschel's observations.
We still need the first coining of "Keyhole Nebula" though. Post-1873 is looking fairly good now.
Cheers -
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