Of mutual friends in England and life in Nantes.
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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 mutual friends in England and life in Nantes.
Seasons greetings and thoughts on JH's upcoming marriage [letter completed 1829-1-4].
Regarding the testimonial for W. S. Stratford, would like to be included among the subscribers. Hopes Stratford has found beneficial employment.
Regrets his health prevents him from attending the dinner in honor of W. S. Stratford. Will discharge his debt when called upon.
Encloses a new prospectus of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Intends to write physical astronomy himself. William Whewell cannot write Sound. Has a stock in hand for three years.
Wishes JH well on his visit to Stewart family and to Cambridge. Personal finances. Arrangements for JH's new servant.
Discovered a mistake in Mr. Perkins's paper published in the Annals of Philosophy. Perkins has not yet corrected the error, although he was requested to do so.
Thanks JH for award and dinner invitation given to him by Astronomical Society.
Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.
Responds to JH's letters of 1828-12-4, and invites JH to visit them on 6 Dec.
A reply to JH's declaration of love [see JH's 1828-12-4 to MS; seems intended to encourage JH].
Encloses letter from Edward Ryan to Charles Babbage that JH agreed to forward.
Seeking JH's address. Encloses dispatch. W. H. Wollaston getting weaker.
Asks JH to insert full name of Peter Dollond into P & J Dollond firm, who constructed W. H. Wollaston's telescope in 1771. W. Wollaston is feeling better.
Will convey JH's note to W. H. Wollaston, who is sinking gradually.
Problems calculating sun's mean longitude due to movement of perigee. Questions S. D. Poisson's value for sidereal year.