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Herschel3964

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sending the Gold Medal awarded to CH by the Astronomical Society and also a pair of bracelets from his mother; will send the indexes later. Just erected James South's large equatorial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3965

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH played no role in the awarding of an Astronomical Society medal to CH. Sent to CH a few copies of JH's Light. His catalogs of double stars and nebulae are progressing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3966

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1829]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0574.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH asks for a large oil portrait of CH, the size of his father's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3967

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[19 May 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0575.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports on good health and behavior of JH's new daughter, Caroline Emilia Herschel. Comments on Greek music and on recent results of the R.S.L. Glass Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3968

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1831]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0576.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sends to CH his new book, Prelim. Discourse. Writes that he 'took little part in the proceedings about the Royal Society. Under any circumstances I would not have held the office of President more than a year and should have felt it a grievous evil to have held it at all.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3969

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1831]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0576.6; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH awarded the Guelphic Order of Knighthood by King William IV, an honor earlier bestowed on William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3970

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.2.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wilhelm Struve's observations support JH's findings concerning the rapid revolution of Eta Coronae. In acknowledgement of the discovery that double stars are a 'revolving binary system,' JH changed the inscription on William Herschel's monument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3971

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

On his German travels, JH left Margaret Herschel and the children at Slough because he feared their exposure to the cholera epidemic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 January 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH reports the birth of his son William James Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3973

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1833-4-25[?]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.4.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH explains how CH's money will be allotted to her while JH is in Cape Town. Margaret Herschel writes CH a note describing JH's new son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.7.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Mentions to CH that 2000 of the nebulae and all of the engravings are printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3975

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.9.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sailing to Cape Town, JH reports sighting an English ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3976

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1834]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0579.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reviews his voyage to Africa in case CH did not receive JH's 1834-1-21 letter. Repairing the house that they bought outside of Cape Town, called 'Feldhausen' by the Dutch and 'The Grove' by the English; they are staying at another home close by. Happy that Table Mountain near the house shelters Feldhausen from southeast gales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3977

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0580.1.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH describes his sweeps of Scorpio. Writes that the Milky Way is 'extremely curious and interesting.' Has collected a large catalog of southern nebulae, many never before detected. JH's search for Halley's Comet has been unsuccessful thus far.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3978

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0580.1.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

MH discusses her determination to educate the Herschel children herself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3979

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0580.3.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Applauds CH elected an [honorary] member of the R.A.S. Missed seeing Halley's Comet and Johann Encke's comet; Thomas Maclear, however, viewed Encke's three times. Has studied nearly the entire Southern sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3980

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.1.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is too busy to use Carl Gauss's magnetometer. Viewing Halley's Comet has interrupted JH's sweeps. Reports that Gamma Virginis is a single star in both the 20-ft. reflector and 7-ft. equatorial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of his fifth child, Alexander Stewart. Has made some excellent observations of Halley's Comet. Asks CH to inform Carl Gauss that JH has not received Gauss's magnetometer nor is JH certain of how to use it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1836-[8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.3.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Work nearly finished here. Has documented the sixth satellite of Saturn and has seen possibly a seventh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3983

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.4.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Confident that 1837 will be his last year in Africa. JH's catalog of nebulae and double stars is nearly complete. Has a series of observations of Halley's Comet from 1836-1-25 to 1836-5-5. Although JH is too busy to undertake any magnetic studies, he has been providing information about Carl Gauss's magnetometer to the new observatory in Bombay. Recalls that Charles Babbage mentioned the 'principle' of Gauss's method 'at least 10 or 12 years' ago.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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