Thanks for JH's letter to Mr. McCulloch on JA's behalf. Hopes for permanent appointment.
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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.
Thanks for JH's letter to Mr. McCulloch on JA's behalf. Hopes for permanent appointment.
Delayed paying [W. O.] Young until JH approves papers on Hannibal claim [for ship's salvage].
Encloses two Mint documents relating to wages for Patrick Shanahan and another worker. JH failed to return papers on Hannibal claim.
In JH's report on state of Crimean Medal to Lord Panmure [Fox Maule], be aware that Benjamin Wyon may not have working dies ready when promised.
Sends letter from Mr. Roberts, memo on silver, and other papers. R. F. Suft ordered boxes to be made.
Policy on adding alloy to gold coins. Reviews JH's instructions for WB during JH's absence. Hopes JH will heal. Should WB hunt up G. Baillie again regarding Ceylon coinage?
E. L. J. Ridsdale is qualified for Assay office and will return on probation. Production [of Crimean medal]. Distribution of copper coins. Hopes JH's health is improving.
New details of gold shipment to Australia aboard vessel Hannibal. Will order more copper from Hays & Son for use as gold alloy at Sydney branch mint.
Sudden appointment of Thomas Graham to succeed JH as Master of Mint. Told C. E. Trevelyan that WB should have been considered. Details of gold shipment to Australia aboard Hannibal. Conflict with Lord Panmure [Fox Maule] over Crimean Medal. Report that Queen has approved Kaffir medal ribbon, but War department lost Benjamin Wyon's wax model for medal.
Mint business. Should WB continue to intervene in hunt for Benjamin Wyon's model [of Kaffir medal lost at War Department]? Still no official letter of Queen's approval for Kaffir Medal.
Sends Mint accounts of last three months for JH's approval. Mr. Ramsay [War Department] still silent on disappearance of Benjamin Wyon's model for Kaffir Medal. Will ask Lord Panmure [Fox Maule] for permission to have Wyon make medal from new model not approved by Queen. Has not yet seen JH's successor, Thomas Graham.
Final pay approved for JH. Thomas Graham has not yet received full authority [as JH's successor]. Production of Crimean Medal. No success in finding Benjamin Wyon's model of Kaffir Medal in War Department. Encloses reply from Philadelphia Mint regarding new weighing machine. Shipment of copper to Sydney branch mint. Cost of producing Kaffir ribbon. Wyon's dies are breaking.
Sends copy of letter by Dean of Ely [George Peacock], Adam Sedgwick, and 'Master of the Rolls ' [John Romilly] to be sent to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple] and to Lord Chancellor. Please sign and return it.
Sign and return three enclosed letters from Cambridge University Commissioners to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple], John Russell, and Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] regarding amended Cambridge University bill.
Gives former reason for retaining Charles Stiles, who may now be dismissed.
Wages and overtime pay for Patrick Shanahan.
Notified Patrick Shanahan that his pay requires 12 full hours attendance. Gave Charles Stiles one week notice of termination. Forwarded 'Parisian Memorandum to Mr. Napier.'
Will produce 6,000 Crimean medals each week, as soon as Benjamin Wyon provides reverse dies.
Estimates cost of producing a single [Crimean] medal at 35 shillings. Die Department now working 13 hours daily on medal.
Returns three letters [related to Cambridge University Commission], approved and signed. JH is 'utterly incapacitated from writing.'