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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.
Tidd Pratt has given his permission for the rules and they can be enrolled as soon as the tables have been added. Will arrange a meeting date with Mr. Harrison. Leaves home tomorrow.
Regarding Mrs. Tollemache and her views conflicting with those of HJ.
Accepts her kind invitation for today with pleasure. Regarding the number of vowel sounds in the English and French languages.
Regarding the principles of trade and business in the parish.
Is obliged for her note. Further regarding the distribution of custom to local tradesmen.
Confesses his error about Mr. Fowler. Regarding the problem of the number of hairs on a human head.
Returns the paper JH sent him. Found it quite a mathematical study. Comments on its theories. Gives a theory of his own.
Called on him the other morning to consult him on several points. Has just been appointed Surveyor General of India to succeed George Everest, and would welcome JH's advice on several matters.
Is anxious that JH's son should have every chance of making himself known. Suggests dates for lectures and fees.
Agrees to provide some written work which will go into the report of the weights and measures commission[?].
John Musgrave will deliver this. If JH is visiting James South's, Musgrave would like to go as he hopes to set up an observatory in Waterford. Mr. Wilding would like to be an F.R.S.
Has just returned from Scotland. Did not call on James Graham but would like to know how he is progressing. Travelled back via the border country and can understand Walter Scott's enthusiasm. Liked the people in Edinburgh. Would like to know how the Herschels are and hopes to come down to see them soon.
Since Mrs. Jones returned she has been suffering from a severe cold. Hopes to see her brother James before he sails. Is pleased JH will wage war against the Puseyites. Will read T. B. Macaulay again.
Can get away the time JH mentions. Expects [Edward?] Ryan any minute. Sanscrit would be very useful for Willy [Herschel] as it forms the basis of most Indian dialects. Mrs. Jones has just lost her eldest sister, and is at Brighton.
Encloses a letter he has received from Mr. Chapman, who thinks JH has done right. Has caught influenza on their return to Haileybury. Has over 80 grafted roses, which JH must come to see.
Was very pleased to see his handwriting again and also to hear that he likes his new abode. William Whewell is coming on Saturday and RJ will propose JH's scheme to him. There are many nightingales at Haileybury. Has a new garden with 250 different rose trees. Will try and bring Mrs. Jones down to see him.
Blue salvias will come by Thursday's coach. Is he to send back the review? Has lost Margaret Brodie Herschel's last letter.
Mrs. Jones has asked him to finish the note for her as she is going to Brighton. Hopes to hear from JH when all is settled about Hawkhurst.
Jones and Willy [Herschel] took the coach at Tunbridge and arrived home before six. Willy [Herschel] is about to start for Hertford and hopes to show him the Assizes later in the week.
Glad to hear he is back to his original idea. Can reach London by 10 a.m. if he wishes to stay longer at Haileybury. Fears the case of W--- is beyond all hope. His poor roses are all prostrated and disfigured.