JH is apologizing for harsh words he inadvertently used, whereby he hurt MH.
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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.
JH is apologizing for harsh words he inadvertently used, whereby he hurt MH.
Reports on a visit to Grandma [Emilia Stewart]; may go to Cambridge; sends MH a draft beginning of a review of Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos.
Met U. J. J. Leverrier, F. G. W. Struve, and George Peacock at the gate of Trinity College; has arranged for Leverrier and Struve to visit Collingwood.
JH has organized something [?] special, and he believes it will come off.
Mostly about the health of Elizabeth Baily; JH ends his letter with a silly riddle.
Has been to Cambridge to support a friend in a vote; JH comments on the dry state of the countryside, and responds to a number of family matters, including one in which JH is trying to get the message across that he is not interested in personal advancement.
Elizabeth Baily is not in good health; JH had his pocket picked that day, but nothing of consequence was taken.
Expresses considerable anger at Parliament having changed property laws to allow enormous speculation to occur.
Offers to assist Peter S[tewart] in his financial difficulties; also comments on E. M[ackintosh]'s financial problems. JH expects more funds soon from dividends.
Is concerned about a domestic [?] who is having fits; asks MH to get some information on the rights of domestics, and then JH asks MH to get him some scientific information that would be at the R.S.L. library.