Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.
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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.
Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.
Inconsequential chatter [letter completed 1829-2-7].
Best wishes to JH on his marriage.
Of JH's happiness on his honeymoon.
Informs JH that his mother has been ill but is improving [letter completed 1829-6-30].
Of travel and holiday plans.
Of changes in JG's plans.
Has no letters about General Cambourne, which JH apparently had requested.
Asks JH to be trustee for JG in a legal matter.
Of plans to come to Slough.
Of the health of Peter Stewart, JH's brother-in-law.
Needs a copy of Euclid from JH; quotes some Latin poetry of Nicholas Copernicus.