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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.
Suspension of operations at Mint is only temporary, due to introduction of new systems for assaying and coining. Mint is storing bullion for resumption of gold coinage in a few days. JH's opinion on continuing drain of bullion from Bank [of England].
Reports average output of gold coinage up to 'these changes in the production of Gold.' Demand is now increasing.
Reports quantities of gold and silver issued by Mint in recent months.
Wants to put stop to unauthorized private work being performed for Board of Inland Revenue by Mint employees using Mint equipment.
Profits that Bank [of England] makes from assay operations at Royal Mint.
Asks for information about foreign gold.
Happy to assist JH in researching fluctuations in global supplies of gold and silver. Lists sources of information.
Encloses latest report from Bank of France.
Large amounts of gold are arriving from U.S., but Bank of England has little. Is gold accumulating at Royal Mint, or is it passing on to France?
Thanks for explaining disposition of gold belonging to Bank of England but stored at Mint. Suspected that importers of U.S. gold were not selling it to Bank but were privately coining it themselves.
How many sovereigns and half sovereigns could be coined at Mint annually without interfering with other business?
H. D. Harness will be leaving Mint to assume duties as Commissioner of Works in Ireland.