Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.
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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.
Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.
Inconsequential chatter [letter completed 1829-2-7].
Best wishes to JH on his marriage.
Of JH's happiness on his honeymoon.
Informs JH that his mother has been ill but is improving [letter completed 1829-6-30].
Of travel and holiday plans.
Of changes in JG's plans.
Has no letters about General Cambourne, which JH apparently had requested.
Asks JH to be trustee for JG in a legal matter.
Of plans to come to Slough.
Of the health of Peter Stewart, JH's brother-in-law.
Needs a copy of Euclid from JH; quotes some Latin poetry of Nicholas Copernicus.
Is grateful for JH's assistance with his request. Would he lend him £5 until his first payment falls due.
Has only just had the opportunity of studying JH's paper. Comments on JH's theories regarding the musical scales and includes some of his own.
Is grateful for his comments on his own theories regarding the flat 7th as a harmonic. Enlarges on this theme.
Is grateful for his comments. Will withdraw his paper as requested; at the same time he points out various aspects of how he arrived at the results.
Has requested his friend Thomas Henderson of Edinburgh University to call on JH. Would be pleased if JH can help him in any way.
Rejoices to hear TH is a candidate for the Professorship of Astronomy at Edinburgh University. His astronomical work has been of great assistance to JH, especially his detection of the reasons for the error in the Greenwich Observations.
In response to AH's 1828-10-8, JH writes to tell him of William Herschel's ideas on nebulae and the Magellanic Clouds.
Felicitations on JH's marriage.