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Herschel5268

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth [Betty] Plumleigh Babbage
Date:
[30 August 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.213
Summary:

Is sorry to hear the distressing news. Offers suggestions to relieve Charles Babbage of his sorrows.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[22 December 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.218
Summary:

News of his family. Joseph Clement's work on the machine and alterations proposed. Clement wants payment of £150. Recent happenings at the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5420

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georgiana Babbage
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.367
Summary:

Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5422

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1827 to 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.369
Summary:

Regarding various publications for distribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5788

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[25 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.247
Summary:

Asks DB to sign a certificate for the candidature of William Ritchie for admission to R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5837

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Peter Brougham
Date:
[1827-7-1 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.306 (C: 20.260)
Summary:

Further reasons why he cannot accept the position of Professor at London University.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
1827-4
Source of text:
RGO 6.807.30
Summary:

A letter accompanying several other letters that might be of interest to GA; encourages GA to act quickly if he means to try for 'the appointment.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5947

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[20 December 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.70 & 20.268
Summary:

Has just had a letter from W. S. Stratford announcing his decision to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society. Comments on this. He himself is also thinking of resigning the Presidency at the Anniversary meeting. Regarding the microscopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[12 February 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.13
Summary:

Talks at length about the operation of the Board of Longitude and of procedures GA should know if he wishes to present proposals to the Board; JH seems to be trying to calm down GA.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel598

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 March 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.15
Summary:

Asks GA about the purpose of the request for the use of Christiaan Huygens's telescope in the possession of the R.S.L.; JH comments on the accuracy of James South's astronomical observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[7 April 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.19
Summary:

Offers information, and strategy, which GA may find useful if he is seriously considering a position at Dublin Observatory; much of the information JH provides comes from Francis Beaufort.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel600

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[3 May 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.21
Summary:

Comments on GA's response to an offer from Dublin [see JH's 1827-4-7]; also about the discussion in the Council of the R.S.L. of a report of experiments from William Whewell and GA; JH makes some disparaging remarks about the work of John Pond.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel601

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 May 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.22
Summary:

Explains to GA the disposition, by the Committee on Papers of the R.S.L., of GA's experimental results [see JH's 1827-5-3].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel602

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[18 October 1827]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.29
Summary:

Comments on GA's work on the solar tables, GA's pending paper on eyepieces, and on the quality of observations made at Greenwich and Paris; GA is intending to repeat the experiment of swinging a pendulum in a mine, and JH believes the Board of Longitude can provide the equipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6338

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane
Date:
[15 March 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.101 & 20.251
Summary:

Has had a collection of Astronomical Observations from K. L. C. Rümker. Should these be printed and has Rümker the sanction of TB for this kind of observation from the Observatory?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8014

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hyde Wollaston
Date:
[13 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.282
Summary:

Notified Georgiana Babbage that two or three electors for professorship at Oxford favor Charles Babbage. JH not free to name them. Death of father may alter Babbage's desire for position. Meanwhile Mrs. Babbage asks that we keep 'any one favourable to C. on neutral ground.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8523

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Claude Louis Mathieu
Date:
[21 November 1827]
Source of text:
Académie des sciences (Paris)
Summary:

Congratulates CM for completing Jean-Baptiste Delambre's Histoire de l'astronomie du XVIIIe siècle [1827]. Explains how to send copies for distribution to England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8549

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1827-4]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.488(1)
Summary:

George Airy has written JH to say that he does not at this time wish to go to Dublin to offer himself as a candidate for the Andrews Professorship at Trinity College, Dublin. Asks advice on aspects of Airy's candidacy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8553

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1827-11]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng. 476
Summary:

Offers the correspondent's friend the information that JH has received a letter indicating that John Henslow is a formidable candidate for the professorship of botany.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8603

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
2] February [1827
Source of text:
AdWDDR II-VII, 5
Summary:

Pleased that JE will continue the Berlin Ephemeris. Makes various recommendations regarding it. Hopes that someone will reduce Thomas Brisbane's observations of southern heavens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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