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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.
[Reply to GA's [1856-4-6 or earlier] on Mohamet's coffin theory.] Congratulations on GA's son winning a scholarship. JH's health is better, but he cannot walk yet.
Formal note of thanks for TA's paper on ozone.
Thanks for JH's kind comments on TA's paper on ozone.
Council of Society of Arts would like JH's support for their new scheme of examinations.
Thanks for his support for their scheme of examinations.
Sends a few explanations of G. B. Amici's third and sixth series microscopes.
Was pleased to receive his letter. Further concerning G. B. Amici's microscopes.
Is sending C. T. Beke's certificate for his signature. Hopes his health is still improving.
Is grateful for JH's remembrances and sympathy in his affliction [death of his sister]
The money presented by his son is to be used to enlarge the Infirmary.
Death of his sister a blow to John Bullar [father of writer].
Their whole family is grateful for JH's letter of sympathy to JB's father.
Recent observations of specified stars and their variations.
Sending him a copy of her Familiar Astronomy and inviting his comments on this work. His works are well known in America.
Sent him a few months ago a copy of her book Familiar Astronomy. Wonders if it has miscarried as she has heard nothing.
Is considering becoming a candidate for the position of Registrar at London University and would welcome support from JH.
Application for the position of Registrar at [London] University.
Is grateful for JH's support for his application as Registrar. Encloses a copy of his application. Gives details of a binocular microscope he has received from Paris.
Was elected yesterday to the Registrarship of London University, and thanks JH for his support.
Lectures AH on the 'examination paper of life' after AH had complained that he was disgusted by a college examination.