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Herschel5100

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[22 November 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.29 (C: RS:HS 2.48)
Summary:

Supports CB for membership in R.S.L. Little time recently for mathematics, but is quite upset with analysts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5101

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.50
Summary:

Soon leaving for a short visit to Devon. Hopes he will call when passing through London. New means of preventing explosions in mines. Gives an equation for JH's comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5102

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[18 December 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.51 (C: RS:HS 20.30)
Summary:

Is in the midst of examining. Will call when in town this week. Has done nothing in analysis lately.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5103

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.52
Summary:

Will see him on Thursday. Has paper ready for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5104

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.53
Summary:

Sending problems in functional analysis. Please send his manuscript on functions to Devonshire Place.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6254

From:
Joseph Banks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.15
Summary:

Has received his paper, which will be laid before the R.S.L. as soon as he has an opportunity. Is obliged to him for compressing the matter to so small a compass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7813

From:
William Wallace
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 July 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.21
Summary:

Sends paper on fluxions written for Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. Uses new formulas, dispensing with binomial theorem. Brings logarithmic and exponential formulae within power of common algebraic processes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7814

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Wallace
Date:
[23 September 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20:25
Summary:

WW's elegant presentation of doctrine of limits is best basis for elementary treatise but not for extensive work, because it involves imaginary functions. Charles Babbage is making progress in theory of functional equations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8148

From:
Ann Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.415
Summary:

Expects JH for dinner Friday. JH's old friend Ianetta learned that she is descended from Scotland's Queen Annabella.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8548

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Miss C.
Date:
[1815 to 1829]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.489(2)
Summary:

Expresses gratitude for watching over JH's interests in his absence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9932

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.266
Summary:

Upbraids JH for not writing, and announces the birth of his daughter, Anne.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9933

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.267
Summary:

Talks about the law, especially now that JH has begun his study of it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9934

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.268
Summary:

Complains that JG had to discover from strangers that JH was ill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9935

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1815]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.269
Summary:

Distressed to hear JH is giving up law; family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9936

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1815
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.270
Summary:

Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

LINNEAN1086

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
26 Feb 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/50, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Congratulates Smith on his knighthood, which his "state of long rustication" had left him ignorant of. Does not agree with rewarding men for personal achievements with hereditary baronetcies, which "should evidently exclude a Richmond Apothecary, & many others". Conveyed [Alexander] Macleay's letter on [William] Travis' [(1771-1851)] case [request to be readmitted to Linnean Society] directly to him to prevent further doubts, having already told him that from the circumstances he had no chance. Questioned his son on his marriage intentions following a letter from Smith.

Does not know 'Chrysanthemum indium'. [James] Lee did not sent the mulberries he requested for pots, he had two on a south wall which bore nothing. His Ribston and Newtown pippins keeping well, as well as his Carlisle codlings raised from cuttings there is no better baking apple.

Complains that a shooting pony he originally paid £10 for has so far cost about £100 in taxes, with an additional £40 should it live another four years.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1087

From:
Sir Thomas Frankland
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
8 Sep 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/15/51, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Smith's letter from Dorset on his son's marriage intentions more accurate than his own information; he is to marry Miss Murray, daughter to [John Murray, 4th] Duke of Atholl's [(1755–1830)] late brother, Lord George, she is 24 and he 31. Nerves broken by alarming accounts of his brother in Cheltenham, [Gloucestershire], son's marriage, and Lady Frankland's declining health.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN112

From:
Sir James Edward Smith
To:
Dawson Turner
Date:
3 Sep 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/95, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Introduces [George Wilson] Meadley [(1774-1818)] of Bishop's Wearmouth, [Sunderland], friend of Thomas [Furly] Forster and author of a life of Algernon Sidney, and a life of Paley. Congratulates Turner on birth of another son.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1143

From:
Thomas Johnes
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
19 Jun 1815
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/16/100, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Received Smith's letter of 11 [June]. His enjoyment of this house; "it is really the nicest cradle for old age" and intends to spend winter here. Shortly returning to Hafod, [Cardiganshire]. Asks Smith to order "empyreumatic lignious acid" for him; anxious to try it on flesh and fish. Asks if Smith has seen Slater's "steam kitchen", "one of the cleverest and most useful inventions". Looking forward to Smth and [Thomas William] Coke's visit to Hafod; his high opinion of Coke. Smith's opinion that we may be near the end of the French Revolution is "very just", though not as near as the ministers think; French politics.

Confirms that it was his friend Merivale who wrote the verses for Miss [Mariamne] Johnes' epitaph [his daughter]; Merivale's character and other work. Dreads the effect of her memorial, to be erected shortly.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN115

From:
John Stackhouse
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
[1815]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/ADD/98, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends copy of his "Extracts [from Bruce's travels in Abyssinia]", as an explanatory note to his edition of Theophrastus he sent Smith last summer ["Theophrasti Eresii de Historia plantarum"]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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