Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.
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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.
Comments on the reports of the birthday celebrations for JH's aunt Caroline.
Thanks JH for birthday wishes for JH's aunt Caroline Herschel. Goes on to tell JH about Caroline's health, both physical and mental, and about the birthday celebration for Caroline.
Wants to send JH a remembrance which his Aunt Caroline wanted JH to have. The obituaries in some of the papers are inadequate. The astronomical journals need to be provided with suitable information about Caroline Herschel.
Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for a gift. Talks about some legal matters related to the death of JH's aunt Caroline Herschel. AK is much concerned with political turmoil around her. Apparently Dr. Mühry died soon after the death of Caroline Herschel.
Concerned about the sending and receiving of some of Caroline Herschel's bequests to JH. AK also talks about arrangements for some other people following Caroline Herschel's death.
Writes of the death of JH's aunt Caroline. Is happy that Caroline is at rest. Describes funeral. Deals with some matters related to servants and other business matters.
About legal matters related to the death of Aunt Caroline, as well as identifying friends and dignitaries who paid their respects. Deals with bills to be paid, and with the question of a memorial tablet in the church.
Caroline Herschel, JH's aunt, is very ill, and not expected to live much longer. AK expresses some concern about some financial matters.