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Herschel3770

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is confident that by summer his sweeps will all be reduced and arranged in three catalogs for JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3771

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

Met Friedrich Bessel at the Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting; invited him to Collingwood, where he expects Bessel in a few days. Enclosed with the letter a specimen of a new photographic process called 'Chrysotype.' Marvels at traveling from Hawkhurst to Manchester round trip (420 miles) in under 23 hours!

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3772

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[4 September] 1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.13; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the erection of an obelisk at Feldhausen to commemorate the site of JH's 20-ft. reflector. Back at Cape Town, Thomas Maclear is measuring N. L. Lacaille's Arc of the Meridian. JH received the Prussian Order of Merit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.15.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH finished his catalog of stars for his Cape Results; hopes to be finished with his nebulae and double star catalogs soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.17 & Extract 3pp TxU:H/L-0588.20; Reel 1058
Summary:

Assures CH that he has preserved everything that she ever wrote to JH or that he found in William Herschel's library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3775

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0589.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of JH's 9th child, Mathilda Rose Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3776

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wishes CH a happy 96th birthday. Reports that when Margaret Herschel's brother John Stewart was in Egypt, he saw a comet. JH remarks that 'there seems to be no end of the comets.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3777

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.9; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH expresses pleasure in receiving and reading extracts from CH's biography. Expects to begin printing his Cape Results by Christmas. In finalizing his Cape Results, JH has found that several Southern double stars moved in the five-year span of his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that Biela's Comet split into two comets; JH has observed it several times. 30-40 pages of JH's Cape Results have been printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH is working hard on his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3781

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0592.9; Reel 1058 & Reel 1089
Summary:

JH expects that CH has received the copy of his Cape Results that he sent recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3837

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1834]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Sweeping progressing quickly; has used the 20-ft. reflecting telescope since February. Discovered two planetary nebulae. Studying Scorpio closely, as CH suggested; has found gorgeous globular clusters there. The equatorial was erected recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3840

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 May 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Has decisively mapped Saturn's sixth satellite; doubts, however, that he will ever see the seventh. Asks CH to inform Friedrich Bessel of his observation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3841

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1837]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

[Postscript to a letter by Margaret Herschel:] JH notes that he has finished the reduction of the first 9 hours in Right Ascension of his southern nebulae and double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3848

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1842]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Finished the reductions of all of the nebulae and double stars recorded at Cape Town; JH soon hopes to prepare for the publication of his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3961

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1826]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0571.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Studying the volcanoes of Auvergne; hopes to use his newly-created actinometer at the Puy de Dôme.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3962

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
4?] May [1827
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0572; Reel 1058
Summary:

Received the first volume of Johann Pfaff's German translation of William Herschel's papers. Just completed a second catalog of double stars; review of nebulae going slowly. JH comments on his precise sweeps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3963

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Hopes to send to CH a catalog of new double stars soon. JH is very disappointed with Johann Pfaff's German translation of William Herschel's papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sending the Gold Medal awarded to CH by the Astronomical Society and also a pair of bracelets from his mother; will send the indexes later. Just erected James South's large equatorial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3965

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH played no role in the awarding of an Astronomical Society medal to CH. Sent to CH a few copies of JH's Light. His catalogs of double stars and nebulae are progressing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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