Extremely formal letter of greeting to JH while traveling in Switzerland. Ends with a long postscript describing a major Swiss monument in Lucerne.
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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.
Extremely formal letter of greeting to JH while traveling in Switzerland. Ends with a long postscript describing a major Swiss monument in Lucerne.
Concerned about JH in his travels on Continent. Relieved to receive news from JH. William Herschel is in good health. Thomas Baldwin continues as before.
Comments on JH's European adventures. Death of MH's brother Thomas Baldwin. Mr. Grover of Eaton expects death of Mr. Vince soon. Mr. Langton is stabling JH's horse.
Should have received the Astronomical Yearbook. No news of its receipt or answers to letters of 12 May and 19 June. Observations which JH sent will appear in the 1824 Yearbook. Has not received the Nautical Almanac for 1821/2.
Laid up with gout. Thanks JH for proposing SY's eldest son [George] as member of taxonomical society. SY trying to gain captain's commission for son under Lord Melville [R. S. Dundas]. Describes crystal that SY cannot identify.