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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.
William King (Earl of Lovelace) was in Somerset when JH's letter arrived, but he placed it before him on his return. Thinks the G. Hartnell affair is the responsibility of J. R. Townshend (3rd Vicount Sydney). His own mother is doing well considering her age. Hopes JH has had good news from India.
Received the enclosed [manuscript] some time ago with instructions to forward it to JH. Delayed sending it as he was uncertain if JH could spare the time to look through it. Regarding R. A. C. Godwin-Austen and his discoveries of human fossils at Abbeville. WG will be going to Bath for a few months for health reasons.
Has just received JH's letter and note for his mother. The manuscript has arrived safely at Surrey Lodge. Is deeply grateful for JH's comments and will follow out his instructions. Has also just heard from his mother.