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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.
Is not very knowledgeable about local terrain that might help GA; adds comments about weight buying, and offers a solution [see GA's 1851-11-5].
Responds with a suggestion of a reasonable price for all the weights [see JH's 1851-10-29].
Will send an assistant to bid for the weights at the auction [see JH's 1851-11-8].
GA's assistant bought the weights at the auction for less than JH had offered [see GA's 1851-11-9].
Is sending some papers on standards prepared by Richard Sheepshanks.
A note to clarify receipt of a letter transmitted by Margaret Brodie Herschel.
JH's letter has already gone to Alexander von Humboldt, who has been waiting to hear from him. The fourth volume of Cosmos.
Strong testimonial to Archbishop of Canterbury on behalf of George Waterhouse, over Richard Owen, for late C. D. E. König's position at British Museum.
Did as JH wished with the papers. Is busy with magnetism and lines of force. Sends a couple of printings.
Is extremely depressed at living in London, a 'howling wilderness of brick and mortar;' JH compares at some length the personality of MH and Richarda Airy; brings MH up to date on some family and acquaintance happenings, and mentions in passing that William Lassell has discovered two interior satellites of Uranus [Ariel and Umbriel].