Family news; is preparing his writings on population [see JG's 1816-2-8] for publication.
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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.
Family news; is preparing his writings on population [see JG's 1816-2-8] for publication.
Family news and the law.
JG announces the death of his daughter Anne, and the publication of his book on population.
Much philosophizing about life, work, and happiness.
The state of the country and friends, and please push JG's book.
About JG's book on population and a pamphlet on the usury laws [letter completed 1817-2-26].
Discusses at some length the strengths and weaknesses of Lucan's Pharsalia. Mentions JG's pamphlet on usury laws, suggesting that the argument from analogy is especially precarious in political economy.
On JG's ignorance of mathematics.
Of poetry, usury laws, and the assizes [letter completed 1817-5-24].
Note to announce the second edition of JG's pamphlet on the usury laws.
Family news, and the sad state of current poetry.
On horse back riding, the law, and the birth of a daughter.
About friendship.
JG's wife is seriously ill.
Depressed over wife's serious illness.
JG's wife died, and he has been sick in body and spirit.
About letter writing, and the joy JG receives from his children.
Coming to terms with the death of his wife and with his new life [letter completed 1818-12-8].
Family news and other matters [letter completed 1819-2-23].
Family news and ramblings [letter completed 1819-5-23].