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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.
Calls Treasury's attention to Mint employee Henry Godfrey, disabled by heart condition. JH sees no alternative but to dismiss Godfrey, but superannuation fund is not yet sufficient to support Godfrey. Asks permission to pay Godfrey £20 on dismissal.
Proposes new Mint position called Scalesman, to be filled by William Bradshaw, and to dismiss Bradshaw's present helper. Pay of lamplighter, Mr. Holland, is inadequate for services Holland renders in maintaining gas plumbing at Mint, formerly performed by Mr. [Love].
Pay rate for policemen assigned to Mint has been increased by Metropolitan Police. Requests authorization from Treasury for this new expense.