Pleased to hear that JH's daughter is to be her successor. Thinks the Queen is right though AM's letters will not turn out to be so pro-slavery as given out to be. [Postscript gives reasons for her resignation.]
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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.
Pleased to hear that JH's daughter is to be her successor. Thinks the Queen is right though AM's letters will not turn out to be so pro-slavery as given out to be. [Postscript gives reasons for her resignation.]
Regrets to hear that JH has been ill. Gives the title of her book and the reasons for her views on slavery.
Has JH received the second or third of AS's Cambridge Paleozoic? Asks about William Whewell's pamphlets regarding the University. Describes trip to Scotland.
Is sending his speculations on the attraction of mountains.
Thanking him for his recommendation of BA's son for service at the Stationery Office.
Part I of Howard's Barometrographia will be ready on Thursday. Is pleased to hear his health has improved. A new edition of JH's Prelim. Discourse would be welcome.
JH's handwriting is improving, which shows he is on the mend. Does not propose to show the failure of the scale. Quotes an error in his Latin.
Submitting a vote for JH's comment. Quotes various points of Latin grammar.
Is glad to hear his health is improving. Has heard that JH is holding a large reception for all his descendents. Is progressing well with the book [on Francis Baily]. Sends a puzzle in spherical trigonometry.