Wants to hear more specifics of JH's travel plans.
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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.
Wants to hear more specifics of JH's travel plans.
Thanks JH for his recent writings on double stars, and comments on a number of observational issues related to the same topic.
Discusses the ale he sent. Hopes his hypothesis of the origin of the solar system did not offend JH.
Aware that letter of 3 April did not reach the Herschels' home until after the engagement. Wishes to explain the apparent neglect.
Sends news of a cholera epidemic to help JH make his summer plans. Mentions a number of new cases from Altona, Hamburg, and Berlin. Asks JH not to spread information.
Sends two bottles of Claret and a box to be forwarded for [Francis] Baily.
Has received copies of his papers that he communicated to the R.S.L. for which he thanks him. JH's study on Natural Philosophy has been reprinted in the States. Has forwarded the second volume of Mécanique céleste, one for him and one for the R.A.S.
His son is shortly traveling to Calcutta and will be able to take any letter or parcel for Mr. Calder.
Regrets belated reply to JH's pamphlet on double stars. Comments on the readings and compares them with some of his own.
Capt. Beaufort has just put two of JH's letters into his hands. Is conscious of the kindly way in which JH entered into the problem. Would like the chance of a conversation with him on the subject.
Compliments to 'Sir John Hershall.' Sends four copies of next issue of Quarterly Review. Will send twelve copies of JH's article tomorrow.
Commissioned to ask JH to select painter and to sit for half-length portrait to be placed in Old House at St. John's. Received JH's paper on the measures of double stars.