Is sending the agreement between the government and CB regarding payment for work on the calculating machine.
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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.
Is sending the agreement between the government and CB regarding payment for work on the calculating machine.
Has signed the paper regarding the machine and is returning it. Regarding its publicity with Members of Parliament.
Regarding the paper on the machine for the Treasury. Will postpone his visit to Slough.
There is to be a sale of pictures, including one of JH; would he like it? Has not heard anything from the Treasury yet regarding payment of his money. Plans for projected holiday.
Regarding the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the calculating machine. Recent astronomical observations.
Has purchased the picture for £8. Will be at Birmingham tomorrow.
Enclosing an invitation from Humphry Davy to dine with him. Invitation for JH to dine with CB also.
Some comments on sun spots based on William Herschel's ideas; considering a collection of William Herschel's writings but publishers not interested.
Forwarding to DB, through Hans Christian Oersted, a paper on caloric by Marc Seguin.
Some comments on observations by Continental observers; matters related to sending books and papers.
Sends an abstract of his paper on observations relating to the practical construction of telescopes [JH's 'Practical Rules,' 1822]. Would like 25 copies for distribution. His recent experiments with polarized light.
Regarding errors and discrepancies in the tables of F. W. Bessel. Difficulty of dispatching books to foreign members.
Is sending him the second edition of his book on magnetic attractions. Comments on the views put forth in this work.
Returning the five volumes of the Berlin yearbook with thanks. Regarding the observations of P. F. A. Méchain at Slough in 1787.
If either of the designs please him, he will be pleased to advise; otherwise explain in detail what he requires.
Bearer must show the inscription which must be corrected by JH. Regarding a price for the work.
Sends some calculations relating to the construction of lenses.
Society awarded JP silver medal. JH willing to accept on JP's behalf and forward it.
Asks JH to befriend nephew Henry White, scholar and missionary at Cambridge. Asks about Mary Baldwin. When will JH visit again? [JH annotation: Asked William Whewell to call on Henry White.]
Per JH's request, DW wrote to Alfred Chalon inquiring about miniature portraits. Quotes prices. Lists names of satisfied patrons.