Warmed by drink and society of 'charming' girls, JH is thinking of Whittaker, and advises him to study less. JH is enjoying reading more than did in school. Sends other news.
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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.
Warmed by drink and society of 'charming' girls, JH is thinking of Whittaker, and advises him to study less. JH is enjoying reading more than did in school. Sends other news.
Gives necessary information for printing end of JH's and Peacock's translation of [S. F.] Lacroix's text on the calculus. Requests news about Cambridge. Tells of JH's travels through England, and Charles Babbage's interests.
Asks about Cambridge friends, and that JW check on various items JH left there. Sends news, especially on 'mineralogizing' with [I. H.?] Jephson and Charles Babbage. Comments on recent deaths of J. A. Deluc, and of Princess Charlotte.
Comments on decaying British domestic affairs. Deplores religion 'as established by law' in contrast with religion 'established by nature.' Has felt sombre lately. Comments on music as relief from mathematics.
Is overwhelmed with work in algebra, studying S. F. Lacroix's work, grinding and polishing mirrors for JH's father. Sends thanks to Whitfield family for songs. Comments on controversial Cambridge news. Sends news of friends.
Asks JH to come to Slough to visit Alexander Herschel before he leaves.
Sends William and Mary Somerville to visit Herschel family. Describes and praises the couple. Hopes observatory at Edinburgh will be completed soon.
Requests JH obtain a paper by Joseph Banks for William Herschel.
Regarding his father's portrait. Would recommend waiting until the days become clearer and longer.
Sending an equation in calculus for him to give opinion.
Answer to CB's equation. Bring something to discuss at the forthcoming meeting of the Analytical Society.
Further comments on his original query [see CB's 1812-6-20] regarding the equation in calculus.
Further comment on the calculus equation sent by CB.
Sending details of some new theorems he has come across.
Sends on part of letter for CB to complete and forward.
About the mathematical formulation for the summation of any series.
Regarding the equations in his memoir on the series of tangents. Queries about the Analytical Society.
Answers to JH's questions on equations. Regarding the printing of his memoirs. Recent meeting of the Analytical Society.
Further equations discussed. Has purchased more books. Regarding the printing of the memoir. [Letter continued on 1813-3-2.]
Comments regarding the preface to their memoir. Further comments on JH's equations.