Family news, and marriage prospects for JG and JH [letter completed 1827-8-15 at Dawlish].
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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.
Family news, and marriage prospects for JG and JH [letter completed 1827-8-15 at Dawlish].
About observing comets, problems with book sellers and shipping books. JL has written a popular astronomy in which he deals with perturbations, precession, and other difficult topics. Would JH like a copy?
Queries and comments about telescopes and microscopes; some thoughts about a diffraction grating.
Asks JH to clarify what goods are his from a joint order with WT from a German optical firm.
Heard JH declined mathematics professorship at London University. WR is a candidate for the position. Asks for JH's support.
Announces eight copies of his Catalogus novus stellarum duplicium et multiplicium are being sent. Has delegated some work on double stars to his aid [E. W.] Preuß.
Feels distant from her family in England. Notes that the French occupation has changed Hanover from what it was when CH left in 1772.
Expresses regret over JH's resignation of R.S.L. post [as Secretary].
Letter of condolence on the death of CB's son Charles.
News of the illness of his son.
Has laid his letter before the Council of London University and hopes he will reconsider his refusal [of professorship].
Further reasons why he cannot accept the position of Professor at London University.
Has completed one of his telescopes. Sends a paper which he hopes JH will accept.
Declines the offer of the Professorship of Higher Mathematics at the University of London. Wishes to have time to devote to research.