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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.
Sending their account for J. J. Littrow's astronomical clock, now packed and shipped.
About the election to fill vacancies at Cambridge University.
Thanks JH for the books sent, and describes the work at Geneva in making geodesic measurements.
Visited Langton family. Visitors at Slough. Elizabeth Langton is staying with MH. Hopes to make peace between Elizabeth and her cousins. JH's rooms 'over the way' are almost finished. Still grieving for William Herschel. Concerned at not hearing from JH's aunt.
Following the death of JH's father, William, JDH comments on Caroline Herschel's arrival in Hanover, and expresses his concern about the situation of JH's mother.
Thanks Herschel family for aid given to care for Hannah Scull, a disabled orphan in the care of the Parrys. Details process of getting legal permission to find a permanent home for the child.
Is extremely sorry to hear the news of the death of William Herschel. Regarding F. W. Bessel's polar distances in relation to his own, and possible reasons for their difference. Has been working on the Greenwich observations.
Returning sincere thanks for the memorial inscribed with the name of JH's illustrious father. It rests with JH and his companions how posterity will judge the present age.
Thanks WW for drawing of Monte Rosa. Comments on a recent political election.
Has delayed answering his letters owing to the health of his father. Grieves to hear of the health of FF. Board of Longitude are fully behind FF. Does not agree with some of FF's proposals.