Comments on the affidavit supplied by WT; will sign most of it but objects to one section.
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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.
Comments on the affidavit supplied by WT; will sign most of it but objects to one section.
Clarifies JH's position, by saying that he clearly supports WT as the inventor of the calotype or talbotype, but has reservations about the collodion process.
Appreciates WT's letter of congratulation on JH's appointment [as Master of the Mint, to the Cambridge Commission?]. Has begun work with Cambridge.
Agrees to WT's use of name 'amphitype' [see WT's 1851-5-6 or earlier].
Wants recommendation from WT for teacher of the 'art of Talbotyping.'
Thanks for examples of WT's photographic engraving; sends a photo in return.
May need WT's permission for the publication in a book on coinage of a photograph of JH prepared using WT's patented process.