Will visit JH at Mint today. [JH annotation: JA wanted to know if government persists in plan to terminate Moneyers' contract.]
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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.
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Will visit JH at Mint today. [JH annotation: JA wanted to know if government persists in plan to terminate Moneyers' contract.]
Asks for appointment with JH tomorrow.
Junior Moneyers Edward Enfield and Robert Rintoul decline offer from Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] for new positions in reorganized Mint. It would put them into inferior status.
Forwards letter signed by all Moneyers, with assurance that they will cooperate with Treasury plan.
Will take JH's note to Mint tomorrow.
Moneyers are extremely anxious. Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] announced in Apr. 1850 that government would abolish Company of Moneyers, whose contract terminated on 13 May. But still there is no arrangement for compensation.
Thanks for JH's assurance that arrangements for Moneyers' compensation will soon be made. Hopes that government will be liberal.
Moneyers still have not received confirmation about compensation for loss of their centuries-old contract. Urges JH to arrange speedy settlement.
Did JH ever report Moneyers' situation to Treasury? Or are JH and [Henry] Rich still giving it 'consideration'?
Thanks JH for offer to relieve Moneyers of responsibility for coinage, but Moneyers would rather have some information about what Treasury is planning to do with them.
Moneyers will stop Mint operations next Thursday [10 July]. But do not expect Moneyers to leave if compensation for their machinery, tools, and lost income has not been settled by then.
Requests copy of Treasury's minutes relating to Moneyers' claims for compensation.
Evaluation of Moneyers' tools and machinery will be completed by Monday. Asks for written assurance that Treasury will pay Moneyers what Mr. Richards, the evaluator, determines their equipment to be worth.
Suggests change in procedure for 'applicants' to Royal Mint.
JH received request for employment from workman employed by JA. Forwards this to JA.
Does not yet have word from government regarding claims for compensation made by Company of Moneyers.
Assurance that JH's lack of response is due not to discourtesy but to lack of information.
Mint must resume gold coinage and needs to take possession of Moneyers' equipment quickly. This will relieve Moneyers of additional responsibility.
Accuses JA and Moneyers of ignoring agreement by refusing to vacate rooms and relinquish tools at Mint, and of purposely slowing down Mint officers' preparation to resume coining money. [Memorandum on verso: Edward Enfield and H. D. Harness were present at time of agreement.]
JH is not authorized to communicate officially with Moneyers. Will do so as soon as authority is granted.