Received 112 epigraphs inscribed by JH for insertion into presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results], to be distributed as directed.
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The Sir John Herschel Collection
The preparation of the print Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds, Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1998, viii + 828 pp) which was funded by the National Science Foundation, took ten years. It was accomplished by a team of seventeen professors, visiting scholars, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and staff working at the University of Notre Dame.
The first online version of Calendar was created in 2009 by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy, working at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium, and it is that data that has now been reformatted for incorporation into Ɛpsilon.
Further information about Herschel, his correspondence, and the editorial method is available online here: http://historydb.adlerplanetarium.org/herschel/?p=intro
No texts of Herschel’s letters are currently available through Ɛpsilon.
Received 112 epigraphs inscribed by JH for insertion into presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results], to be distributed as directed.
Fifteen copies [of JH's Cape Results] sent as JH directed. Remainder of 112 copies due today from binder. Awaiting JH's instructions for distribution.
Copies [of JH's Cape Results] have been distributed as JH instructed. U.S. government does not permit envoy to carry private parcels on official travel. Ambassador George Bancroft is out of town. Suggests writing to each American recipient and ask directions for delivery.
Delivery of copies [of JH's Cape Results] to Munich as directed by JH will result in charge. Does JH want to apply to Bavarian minister to transmit these free?
Smith, Elder & Co. wrote to all American intended recipients [of JH's Cape Results; see SE's 1847-9-23]. Still trying to get cooperation from American envoy. Asks JH's permission to publish now.