Thanks from curators of Durham Observatory for Cape Results.
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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 from curators of Durham Observatory for Cape Results.
Congratulations for Cape Results. Excellent memorial to William Herschel. [Engravings of JH's] portrait were distributed to famous astronomers in northern Europe. Fragile nature precludes shipping it to Italy, India, and America. Believes J. R. Hind and George Bishop have right to discovery of new planet [Iris].
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates Margaret Brodie Herschel for her part in it.
Congratulations on completion of 'Herculean labors' represented in Cape Results.
Apologizes for not noticing JH's offer 'written upon the second leaf' [of JH's Cape Results] to send engraving of JH's portrait. Assures JH that TC would treasure it.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Recalls JH's parents. Delighted to own portrait of JH.
Gratitude on behalf of Observatory committee for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Has ordered JH's portrait. Hopes to see 'our Equatorial mounted in a few weeks.'
Believes no representation of northern portion of Milky Way exists to match JH's plate XIII [in Cape Results] showing southern portion. Would JH construct one?
On behalf of uncle William Pearson, who is ill, WM thanks JH for Cape Results.
Will distribute copies [of JH's Cape Results] if JH will forward them to French embassy.
Count Kielmansegg is absent. Sent copy of JH's Cape Results to king this week. Will distribute other copies to institutions [in Netherlands] if JH will forward these to Embassy.
Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to Netherlands on Sunday, if received at embassy by tomorrow.
Gratitude for copy of JH's Cape Results received by HEIC library. Will forward copies to HEIC observatories in Madras and Bombay and to library of Asiatic Society of Bengal.
Two unsuccessful trips to Kensington to carry out JH's commission. Unable to meet 'Sir J.' Please write 'Private' on letters addressed to FB.
Sends Parliament papers relating to clock proposed for tower of Westminster Palace. Asks JH to comment on letters from G. B. Airy to [Stratford] Canning and to [E. J.] Dent.
Thanks JH for having sent JH's Cape Results to Hartnup's Liverpool Observatory. Would appreciate receiving a picture of its author.
Is grateful to JH for undertaking to review Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos. Regarding copyright and printing of this book.
Encloses Thomas Longman's letter. Is very pleased that JH is undertaking the great work.