Of plans to go to London.
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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.
Of plans to go to London.
About JH's mother's illness, and an invitation to JH to visit Hastings.
Bad weather has prevented him from observing the transit of the comet. Has purchased a refractor similar to the one at Dorpat.
Heard election for position in London will not take place for several weeks. If JH can secure situation in Virginia for WR, WR will accept it.
Interested in JH's catalogue of dimmer double stars. Worries about determining parallax of very close stars. Points out mistake in JH's formula for determining 'the maxima and minima of the position angles.' Informs JH of German translation of William Herschel's writings, Wilhelm Herschels sämmtliche Schriften.
Although not known to JH, is writing under the auspices of Charles Babbage. Sends various works. Has honor of having proposed JH as correspondent to Royal Academy of Science of Brussels, unanimously supported. Would JH please seriously consider?
Describes her role in William Herschel's work as 'a mere tool which he had the trouble of sharpening and to adapt for the purpose he wanted it.' Sending to JH the first volume of Johann Pfaff's translation of William Herschel's papers in three weeks; believes that JH will be unhappy with it.
Sending a copy of Johann Pfaff's German translation of William Herschel's papers.
Would like to spend Christmas with him. Does he want a Newfoundland puppy?
Regarding Mr. Moreau and his certificate. Recent happenings at the R.S.L. Has been pheasant shooting.
Thanks for instruments and books. Death of Prof. Giuseppe Piazzi. Returns instruments for repair. Books have not reached him. Sends first volume of one of his own works.
Restriction to reside constantly [at Cambridge] may deter Charles Babbage from position of Lucasian Professor.
Regrets he has taken so long to answer his letter. Gives reasons why the Commission does not allocate the same zone to two astronomers. Readings of J. Grooby and T. J. Hussey. Thanks for JH's work. J. E. Bode's work will be continued.