Will go to the Royal Mint to discuss the Medal of Waterloo with H. D. Harness. Apologizes for not writing in English.
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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.
Will go to the Royal Mint to discuss the Medal of Waterloo with H. D. Harness. Apologizes for not writing in English.
Will go to the Mint the next Friday to confer with H. D. Harness. States what a great honor it is to work with the Mint.
Receives workload from H. D. Harness. Discusses the striking of the commemorative Waterloo Medal.
Will continue to write in Italian so JH can censor the translation of the letters when giving information to other officials at the Mint.
Thankful for help in organizing his office. Receives instructions from H. D. Harness.
Pleased that JH returns to health.
Believes it might be possible to remain at Bishopsgate and commute to London instead of moving to the Mint. Discusses a medal commemorating the coronation of Queen Victoria.
The Royal Commission discusses BP's position at the Mint. BP will meet with H. D. Harness to confer over BP's position.
Speculates that there might be an increase in duties for BP, now that W. C. Wyon is dead. Considers living at the Mint.
Requests JH to pursue the matter of BP's retirement pension. Compares BP's salary with those of other Mint officials, including the Modeller and the Engraver. Discusses the medal designs that the Royal Commission charged BP to create over the years.
Repeats his desire for a pension. Criticizes the efficiency of some of the Mint officials. Complains many others have been granted residences and pensions. Needs a competent worker to harden the dies for the Waterloo Medal.
BP states problems concerning his office, salary, residence, and pension.