Of JG's journey north and the woman who nursed him back to health [letter completed 1826-2-16 at Wandsworth].
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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.
Of JG's journey north and the woman who nursed him back to health [letter completed 1826-2-16 at Wandsworth].
About JG's fatigue on his return home.
About JG's health, the need for JH to marry, and plans for the summer.
Asks for information, on behalf of JG's father, about a Cambridge man.
About JG's children and his plans to move to Hastings.
About plans to spend the winter at Hastings.
About the weather and people in Hastings.
JG urges JH to marry. JG has begun to write history again.
Shares some gossip, and asks advice about a dedication for JG's book.
Worried about JH's love life.
About plans for the Christmas season, the weather, history writing, and book publishing.
Of plans to go to London.
About JH's mother's illness, and an invitation to JH to visit Hastings.
A note to accompany one of CH's writings, together with some comments on comet sightings.
The Lucasian Professorship will shortly become vacant. Hopes JH will become a candidate for this chair, once occupied by Newton.
William Whewell has promised to spend six weeks with him and he hopes that JH will also be able to come for a time.
Acknowledging the letter informing him of his election to the R.S.L.; unable to attend on 9 Nov. but will attend at the first opportunity after that date.
Has been waiting for a letter from Basil Hall regarding the availability of his pendulums, but has heard nothing. Surprised at the error in William Lambton's calculations. What does he think of the method of finding the figure of the earth by measuring the parallax of the moon? Is writing in bed. Has been polishing a mirror for T. J. Hussey.
Bad weather has prevented him from observing the transit of the comet. Has purchased a refractor similar to the one at Dorpat.
Expressing his gratitude for the kindness received from JH while staying in England. Thanks for the Memoir he has received.