Enclosing a page and a drawing, which may be of interest to him. Best wishes for Christmas.
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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.
Enclosing a page and a drawing, which may be of interest to him. Best wishes for Christmas.
Sends suggestions for recipient of R.A.S. medal and comments on JH's 1839-11-29.
Brief note supporting GA's medal recipient ideas [see GA's 1839-12-16], and adding some of JH's ideas.
Is sorry JH was unable to be with them at the Anniversary meeting. Has had a further letter from the Admiralty regarding a pendulum.
Has had no further tidings of the pendulum so has drafted the enclosed letter.
Still invalid. Offers to be godfather for JH's new child [Maria]. When does JH plan to move from Slough?
Write to Richard Sheepshanks for permission to copy engraving.
Thanks FB for a variety of observational material, including establishment of standards of measurement [letter completed 1840-1-3].
Discusses L. J. M. Daguerre's patent application, JH's experiments in making light sensitive paper, and JH's determination to give up photographic researches so as to return to preparation of JH's Cape Results.
Discusses JH's efforts to secure applications for teaching positions at the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope. Lists a number of candidates.
Requests an appointment to see JH in regard to TM's candidacy for a position teaching at the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.
Replies to JH's letter of 1839-12-10. States that George Napier has informed him that four positions are to be filled. Asks JH which candidates he would recommend.
Cannot afford to visit JH and has no testimonials to support his candidacy for a teaching position at the Cape. Describes his attainments and pleads for consideration.