Of mutual friends in England and life in 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.
Of mutual friends in England and life in Nantes.
Seasons greetings and thoughts on JH's upcoming marriage [letter completed 1829-1-4].
Regarding the testimonial for W. S. Stratford, would like to be included among the subscribers. Hopes Stratford has found beneficial employment.
Regrets his health prevents him from attending the dinner in honor of W. S. Stratford. Will discharge his debt when called upon.
Encloses a new prospectus of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Intends to write physical astronomy himself. William Whewell cannot write Sound. Has a stock in hand for three years.
EM has just missed being awarded a Royal Medal; it was given to W. H. Wollaston. Thinks it advisable for EM to draw up a brief resume of his own scientific discoveries.
JH's love for Margaret Stewart. Financial plans for future. Isabella Stewart is still ill. Burn this letter. P.S.: Do not burn it. JH may want to read it in later years. Mrs. Stewart gave JH her husband's journal recording Margaret's sixth year. Regards from James Grahame to MPH.
Enamored of Margaret Stewart. Orders MH to secrecy about JH's engagement. Praises fiancée's musical talent.
Wishes JH well on his visit to Stewart family and to Cambridge. Personal finances. Arrangements for JH's new servant.
Discovered a mistake in Mr. Perkins's paper published in the Annals of Philosophy. Perkins has not yet corrected the error, although he was requested to do so.
Acknowledges receipt of papers sent by WH for Astronomical Society and R.S.L. and will deliver them, but currently has not time to say more. Looks forward to enrollment of WH's name among members at next Astronomical Society meeting.
Thanks JH for award and dinner invitation given to him by Astronomical Society.
Acknowledges receipt of CH's diary. JH apologizes for mishandling one aspect of the awarding of the Astronomical Society's Gold Medal to CH.
Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.
Has prepared a paper on the doctrine of sound; expects to be up to spend several days with GA at the Cambridge Observatory.
A love letter on Christmas Eve from JH, at home with his mother, to his 'attached,' MS; comments about their mutual friend, James Grahame.
Writes to initiate JH's suit for the hand of Margaret Stewart, and place his cause before ES. Enclosed is a letter to Margaret [see JH's 1828-12-4 to Margaret Stewart] and also a letter from James Grahame to ES.
JH declares his undying love for MS. [Letter very correctly sent through MS's mother; see JH's 1828-12-4 to Emilia Stewart].
Responds to JH's letters of 1828-12-4, and invites JH to visit them on 6 Dec.
A reply to JH's declaration of love [see JH's 1828-12-4 to MS; seems intended to encourage JH].