Tells CB about a visit by JH and Wolryche Whitmore to the Duke [of ?] to present the case for more government funds for Charles Babbage's calculating machine.
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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.
Tells CB about a visit by JH and Wolryche Whitmore to the Duke [of ?] to present the case for more government funds for Charles Babbage's calculating machine.
Urges a visit to Collingwood by CB. Refers to the development of a cypher.
Regarding communications from Paddington. Gives verses written in honor of the 40-foot telescope. Has some strange results in photographic work.
Regarding a missing picture of his father.
Please send on the picture. Hopes he had a good time in Italy.
Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.
Has had visitors which accounts for the delay in answering letter. Thanks for memoir additions. Is sending paper dealing with use of CB's work. Somervilles are still in Rome. Is glad to hear good news of his mother.
Requests advice on the setting up of a sick benefit society. Remarks on some of CB's queries.
Regarding the health of his aunt and other family matters.
Regarding the deed for CB's brother-in-law. Is reading G. W. Leibniz's metaphysical works.
Health has improved. Regarding an experiment carried out at the Royal Institution.
Is thinking of publishing a new edition of Examples in the calculus of finite differences. Would like his views on this.
Asks CB's advice on how correctly to avoid attending a Queen's ball JH has been commanded to attend.
Regarding the physical features of the moon.
Regarding the originator of the R.A.S. Regarding his duties as trustee and other legal matters.
The Ryans are in London.
Thanks for his offer of help in the trusteeship. Also for his pamphlet on income tax. Is about to become involved in Chancery proceedings. Comments on tax.