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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.
Was pleased to receive JH's version of Book I of the Iliad. Comments on the difficulties of translating ancient works into modern language. Hopes his health is sounder.
Please accept the enclosed book, which he has dedicated to JH. Has been unsuccessful at the R.S.L. Hopes some day to have ample means with which to pursue science.
As JH is preparing a catalogue of all known nebulae, would WL please provide a complete listing of all he has seen.
Would like an introduction to JH so that RM can send him the final proofs of a book he has been working at, which has been returned unopened from the Institut de France.
Has instructed the printers to send JH proofs of RM's book on the phonetic alphabet. [Note by JH: 'sent the first proofs to France.']
Sends drawings of masses of ice that fell in the neighborhood on the 7th. Would like drawings returned to deposit them in the museum. Hopes grandchildren reached Collingwood safely.
Sends a cutting from the Stroud Journal concerning JH's father, which may interest JH.
Outlines the early life of his father, Sir William Herschel, and shows that the cutting received from the Stroud Journal was inaccurate. [Marked 'not sent.']
[Written on back of printed notice from Smithsonian Institution, asking British correspondents to forward literary and scientific materials via WW in London.] Received JH's note and vol. 7 of Smithsonian Collections. Sent JH's parcel to Washington.
About disposal of extra copies of JH's printed observations.
Note of thanks to accompany payment for JH's first installment of the Iliad translation.
Comments on several nebulae, and on GA's receiving an honorary degree [from Cambridge University].
Thinks application of heat will not harm carbonate of lead crystal, and urges JH to 'boil, torture, or otherwise put it to the question in whatever way' JH sees fit.
Wants suggestions as to whom R.S.L. should award medals.
Cannot travel to London. Wishes she could return to her country and friends. Thankful for her health. Wants Herschels to visit Italy.
Seeks clarification of the position of one of the listed nebulae [see JH's 1862-4-30].
Provides the information in response to GA's request for the position of one nebula [see GA's 1862-5-27].
Acknowledges his letter and his invitation to Collingwood. Was pleased to have the company of the young ladies on their journey from Paris.
His gift has given her great pleasure. Will show his translation of Homer to the Tennysons. Has lost her neighbor Mr. Clough. Would like a visit from the Herschels. News of Alfred Tennyson's current work.
Would be glad to know in which work he argued against the eternal existence of matter.