Unable to accept JH's invitation. Will call after returning from Scotland.
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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.
Unable to accept JH's invitation. Will call after returning from Scotland.
Reports recent eclipse observations around the world.
Relieved that news of death of King [George III] did not weaken William Herschel. Will see JH and Lady Mary Pitt Herschel in Bath in April. Lady Watson and Miss Joy are not well.
Recovering from shoulder injury. After leaving Slough, called on Joseph Banks, who died recently.
William Herschel's health. Lady Watson and Miss Joy are well. Sad that JH will not visit Bath.
JW to be proposed as cathedral organist by Dean of Hereford. Current organist under suspicion for starting fires at college. Thanks for support of JH's friends.
JW was elected Hereford cathedral organist. Thanks JH for letter of support and gift of poetry. Bishop promised to arrange JW's quick release from Cambridge duties. Vice-Chancellor ruled in JW's favor in case with Mrs. Deacon.
Arrived in Hereford two days before Dean's death. Lost valuable confidant. Sprained wrist and fingers before leaving Cambridge, but must play for Dean's service.
Coming to Slough at Lady Herschel's invitation.
Father died. Consoles JH on loss of Mrs. Beckwith. Will always remember kindness shown by Herschel family when EW was attending Eton.
John Pond's last communication to Committee is in press. Save its second printing.
Please write [H. J. Temple, Viscount] Palmerston on behalf of Fearon Fallows, candidate for director of future observatory at Cape of Good Hope.
Gives diagram and explanation of TY's reduced parallax. JH's formula is elaborate but complicated. TY's formula is less exact but easier for public to use. Welcomes criticism.
HW expected news of Mrs. Beckwith's death, following receipt of letter from Mary Baldwin describing poor health of her sister.
FB's observations. Happy to become associate of new Astronomical Society. Discusses observations of Halley's Comet by James Bradley and Nathaniel Bliss.
Rules of new Astronomical Society. Offers to propose JB as associate.
Announces newly formed Astronomical Society. Invites AB to join.
Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites WO to become associate.
Announces new Astronomical Society. Invites HW to become associate. Mentions planned observatory at Cape of Good Hope.
Will see JH on Friday; hoping for clear weather.