Decimal Association will not publish answers to questions by Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd] until next session. Seeks consent of JH and other members to publish these sooner.
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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.
Decimal Association will not publish answers to questions by Lord Overstone [S. J. Loyd] until next session. Seeks consent of JH and other members to publish these sooner.
Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.
S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries and the work of the Commission on the Decimal Coinage. Is sure he read the algebraic adjectives in the Memoirs of the Analytical Society. May be related in some way. His wife is slowly recovering. Has JH read about the Devil's Elixir?
Has received a list of witnesses whose answers have been printed for Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle).
Hopes the Indian mail has taken a weight off JH's mind. George Peacock is anxious that JH should be in their plot regarding the introduction of the decimal coinage.
Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].
Will send the proofs. Has heard all about JH's ancestor [Hercules]. Miss Louisa has committed manslaughter.