Formal note and stamp acknowledging receipt of £50 annuity from estate of William Herschel, sent by executor JH, followed by note to JH on arrangements for sending such payments. Asks for news about Stewart family.
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Formal note and stamp acknowledging receipt of £50 annuity from estate of William Herschel, sent by executor JH, followed by note to JH on arrangements for sending such payments. Asks for news about Stewart family.
Wishes to learn if Isabella Stewart's health has declined.
Thanks JH for sending a copy of his Prelim. Discourse; notes that it has been translated into German from a French translation. Laments that she is 'decaying.'
Received news from the Duke of Cambridge of JH's appointment to the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order.
Losing her strength and eyesight. Describes a conversation with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Reminds JH to send his catalog of double stars.
Feeling simply 'dismal.'
Wishes JH well on his upcoming trip to the Cape of Good Hope. Asks JH to study the lower part of the Scorpion, for William Herschel was mystified by the 'uncommon appearance of that part of the heavens.' [Written as a postscript to a letter by Margaret Herschel.]
Thrilled that JH has arrived safely in Cape Town; notes that JH's Cape Town trip has captivated the intellectual world.
Experiencing 'a daily increase of pain and feebleness.'
Asks about JH's children. Remarks that JH's discovery of globular clusters in the Scorpion is not what she remembered William Herschel being mystified about; remembers that WH exclaimed that there seemed to be a 'Loch im Himmel' ('hole in heaven') there.
Hopes that JH will receive Friedrich Bessel's paper called 'On the Influence of the Irregularities of the Earth on Geodetic Operations, and their Comparison with Astronomical Determinations.'
Details her daily routine.
Thrilled to be named godmother of JH's first child.
Saddened at the death of JH's mother; knows that 'it can't be long before I shall follow the dear departed.'
Regrets that William Herschel could not see JH finish WH's catalogue of double stars; thrilled that JH has revived WH's name.
Sending a box to JH, containing chiefly books.
Has recently been too ill to write. Sent portraits of William Herschel to Wilhelm Struve, Heinrich Schumacher, Karl Gauss, Friedrich Bessel, and others.
Grateful to be made an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy. Wants 'one or two' copies of her index to John Flamsteed's catalog of omitted stars.
Recounts a letter from William Rowan Hamilton, President of the Royal Irish Academy, commending CH on her service to astronomy.