[Cavr.?] Peruzzi departed for Florence Wednesday and took Duke of Northumberland's letters. At next opportunity, JB will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Florence observatory and to G. B. Amici.
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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.
[Cavr.?] Peruzzi departed for Florence Wednesday and took Duke of Northumberland's letters. At next opportunity, JB will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Florence observatory and to G. B. Amici.
Mr. Henderson left London today taking copies of JH's Cape Results to Florence.
Thanks GB for making exception. Will send copies [of JH's Cape Results] immediately to American legation. Offers personal copy to GB. Notes national and private efforts at astronomy in America.
Devotes all leisure time to reading JH's gift copy of JH's Cape Results. Reports distribution of twenty copies to America.
[Form letter] Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by library of American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Gratitude from proprietors of Bowditch Library for receipt of JH's Cape Results and for JH's memory of their late father [Nathaniel Bowditch].
Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Agrees, in Baron K. A. Hügel's absence, to forward copy [of JH's Cape Results] to Tübingen. Please send it to Württemberg legation.
Sends copy of HW's paper on combinations of 'Plural Elements,' printed in Transactions of Cambridge Philosophical Society, based on the method of continued subtraction suggested by Augustus De Morgan. Shows solution for Bernoulli's fifth number.
JH avoids participating in meteorological enquiry. Suggests improvements on WB's plan to establish government office to collect and publish meteorological reports from worldwide network of military stations. Has read Francis Ronalds's papers.
About observing stars with the transit circle, and timing the annulus [of an eclipse?].
Was too cloudy to observe the eclipse; very worried about the health of Thomas Maclear.
Thanks for excellent Talbotypes. Notes how few photographs are 'perspective representations on a vertical plane' and suggests how to correct this.
Is sorry that JH has been introduced to the law on Trusts under unfavorable circumstances. Longmans wants the review [JH's review of Humboldt's Cosmos] printed and bound by Christmas day. Let him know as soon as his paper is ready.
Has just received his note. Would like to print [JH's review of] Kosmos at Christmas, so let him know if there is a chance of it being ready. Mrs. [Richard] Jones has not been feeling well. Richard Jones is visiting Alexander Baring (1st Baron Ashburton).
Regarding progress with the printing and translation of Kosmos. Richard Jones has visited Alexander Baring (1st Baron Ashburton).
Hopes no inconvenience will be caused by booking JH's paper for 10 Dec.; its length has been estimated as 50 pages. Will send him the text of Kosmos as it comes from the printers. Richard Jones has returned in triumph. Agrees with Alexander Baring (1st Baron Ashburton) on the currency.
Offers to assist Peter S[tewart] in his financial difficulties; also comments on E. M[ackintosh]'s financial problems. JH expects more funds soon from dividends.
Is concerned about a domestic [?] who is having fits; asks MH to get some information on the rights of domestics, and then JH asks MH to get him some scientific information that would be at the R.S.L. library.