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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.
Responds to GA's account of his tour [see GA's 1859-8-13] with interest, and adds a description of JH's poor health.
Returns GA's letter copy [see GA's 1859-6-14] with thanks, noting it is more complete than JH's own.
The Radcliffe Trustees are asking for assistance in naming a new director of the Oxford Observatory; JH sends a draft response.
Is preparing a list of telescopes with their focal lengths and quality, and asks GA to correct JH's list.