H. D. Harness no longer resides at Mint. Explains division of JH's taxes between Collingwood and London residence at Harley Street.
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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.
H. D. Harness no longer resides at Mint. Explains division of JH's taxes between Collingwood and London residence at Harley Street.
Deliver bars produced today to Mr. Hill, who will commence work immediately in anticipation of assay.
Forwards letter from E. W. Ward to commissioners of Treasury, proposing that J. Triskett and ten royal engineers accompany Ward to Australia to supervise construction of branch mint in Sydney.
Explains why JH considers HF's case to be different from that of F. R. Brande. Does not believe that HF's appeal to Treasury will be seriously considered.
Hopes JL will call application of JH's brother-in-law for position of Secretary of Bank of Asia to attention of a director, who is JL's relative.
News of friends and of daughter Caroline; is sending out letters, papers, money, and JH's 'likeness.'
Full of messages to JH's wife, Margaret, and bits of family news.
Comments on the weather, daughter Margaret Louisa's sunny disposition, what magazine to send son Willy, and JH's shortage of shirts.
JH's copy of Apollonius's work on conic sections was given to Francis Baily. [P. L. M. de] Maupertuis's letter to [James] Bradley is 'real prize.' Comment on AD's puns. Finds W. R. Hamilton's Quaternions 'horribly metaphysical.'
Making arrangements to send two of JH's sons to Greenwich, so that G. B. Airy can take them to Woolwich [Arsenal] to watch mortar practice.