Thanks for comments on JL's papers [see JH's 1828-7-24]; Charles Babbage had visited JL.
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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.
Thanks for comments on JL's papers [see JH's 1828-7-24]; Charles Babbage had visited JL.
Arrived here yesterday with the Murchisons and starts tomorrow for the Vicentini. Would welcome JH's advice on what to see and read when in Sicily.
Sends packet of CH's personal papers to JH. Explains why CH destroyed her diary, which reminded her of painful last years in England before William Herschel's death.
Sends information on occultation of Alpha Tauri. Describes meteors sighted during the night of 12 Aug.
Is taking her grandchild to Southend. Charles Babbage is at Berlin.
Instructions on how to reach Tytherley. Has not seen Encke's Comet yet.
GF and family plan to visit JH at Slough on 29 Sept. for 'observation.'
Found house in Turnham Green Terrace. Specimen collection still in baggage warehouse.
Describes sister's ill health. Mentions meeting mutual friends. Inquires about welfare of JH's acquaintances.
Thanks for invitation to Slough, but CW will remain home with relatives and friends.
Feels responsible for JH refusing to accept Navy's £25 reimbursement. Used JH's [equinoctial] time [in Nautical Almanac supplement], but with different notation. Disagrees that England's scientific reputation depends upon its government. William Richardson is justified in continuing work of late Board of Longitude. Reports meeting in Paris with Jacques Babinet and François Arago.
Thanks JH for information on JH's detection of Encke's Comet. JS's contacts with various astronomers, including Peter Barlow, John Pond, and François Arago.
Will sponsor JH for the Cambridge Philosophical Society. Discusses WW's published report of WW's Dolcoath mine experiments. Comments on mineralogical classification. Promises to send books to JH on sound and music.