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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.
Comments on comparison of boroughs based on assessed value and on taxation.
Brief note about JH's travel to Slough and the need to come back to London soon.
JH and the baby are getting along well; JH talks about cholera; is 'almost certain I had the comet in the [JH's telescope's] field.'
All is well in the household; JH is to chair the cholera committee for the parish, which includes inoculation for all committee members and an oath to treat the sick if nurses cannot be found; JH is receiving political pamphlets [which he ridicules], after Lord John Russell cited JH as an authority in parliament.
Recounts JH's travels to date, together with stories about some of the people he has met; also comments on cholera in various cities [letter completed 1832-6-13].
Reports of further travels, and JH's visit to his aunt Caroline Herschel; interesting stories about his stay in Hanover, including a report on JH's attendance at the Waterloo banquet.
Warns MH about delays in crossing the North Sea, due to storms; will search out the earliest alternative that will carry JH with some comfort.
More about JH's difficulties in reaching England [see JH's 1832-6-26] because of storms at sea; will now try to clear Customs House and come to MH this day.
Flattered by JW's request [see JH's 1832-6-8] for portrait. Business matters delay JH selecting artist.
Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'
Did not expect payment for JH's [review of Mary Somerville's Mechanism of the Heavens] in Quarterly Review. Returns John Murray's remittance. François Arago's 'comet paper' and ensuing panic. Condolences on [death of JL's son].
Responds favorably to JD's request that JH vote for J. W. Lubbock in a forthcoming election [to represent the University of Cambridge in Parliament].
Indebted to CB and friends for their encouragement, but JH declines Provost's invitation to be candidate for professorship at Edinburgh University.
Responds to JS's fear [see 1832-5-15] that JH has been preparing an attack on JS's double star observations by explaining in detail and providing extensive evidence that JH has no such intention.
Please send vol. 2 of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of P. S. Laplace's Mécanique céleste.
Sends some autographs requested by WD. Discusses observations of comets, especially Biela's, and of various stars, especially double stars.
Proposes to come to the Cape in the ensuing season and would be pleased to bring anything TH may require. Enquires about conditions at the Cape and suitable sites for JH's observations.
Unable to visit, but has sent two papers on the orbits of double stars. Discusses double stars, noting that four double stars are now known to orbit with periods less than a century long. Wilhelm Olbers is seriously ill.
Asks SR to vote for [William Hodge] Mill for the new Boden Professorship of Oriental Literature at Oxford. Thanks SR for gift of SR's book on James Bradley.
Gives data necessary for astronomers to observe Biela's Comet.