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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.
Sends items by F. W. Bessel and G. A. Plana. Will be dispatching boxes to various European towns next week and will be pleased to include any items from JH. His observations made recently show interesting results. Comments on these results and the influence of the bore.
Acknowledging the receipt of two boxes of manuscripts to be held at the R.S.L. until the return of JH from the Cape.
Acknowledging receipt of tin box containing the papers of the late Sir William Herschel.
Has now completed his examination of the mode of reading off the barometer of J. W. G. Bu[t]zengeiger, made under the direction of H. C. Schumacher. Comments on the readings. Has now sent off all the Italian papers. Hopes JH will have a prosperous voyage.
All his friends are pleased to hear of his safe arrival at the Cape. Sends a cutting from the Athenaeum, which announces the fact. Is anxious to know if he obtained any observations with his barometer.
Sends some packages and his Transactions. Sent through [Peter?] Stewart the first volume of Col. Mark Beaufoy's Observations. Sends copies of the Athenaeum, which contains details of the Edinburgh meeting. Will be placed on the list to receive free copies of the Athenaeum.
Was pleased to see one of JH's letters with his mail that morning. Recalls his first meeting with JH. Has arranged for JH's name to be added to those who receive free copies of the Journal.
Has arranged for the missing parts of their journal to be forwarded. His own health is good.
Sends JH a sketch of an experiment already made.
Informs JH that he has been put onto an R.S.L. committee to consider the continuation of observations in the Southern Hemisphere, and to announce a meeting of that committee and of the Glass Committee.
Informs JH of the need for a short R.S.L. Council meeting.
JH's resignation as R.S.L. secretary. Reports finding papers. Will confirm that Greenwich observations reached Thomas Henderson. Thermometers and [John] Dalton's Elements arrived safely. Thanks for invitation to visit Slough.
Thanks JH for the interest JH has taken in him, but declines the offer to teach in the Government Free Schools at the Cape of Good Hope.