Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.
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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.
Sends a work on physical geography in return for a receipt of some lines of poetry.
Thanks for a number of items of poetry and sends EC a translation of some poetry by Friedrich Schiller.
Thanks for a collection of poems; comments on lunar eclipses.
About a great meteor seen earlier in the year; JH is slowly translating Homer's Iliad.
Coincidences between observations of a meteor seen by EC and another account.
Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.
Comments on the unevenness of generations; speculations about life on Uranus; expects to finish translation of the Iliad by the end of the year.
Has sent his translation of Homer's Iliad to the publisher and is having a collection of the best portions sent to EC.
Main object in translating Homer was to 'wipe off the stigma cast on English hexameters by such people as Tennyson.'
Thanks for EC's poetry; comments on other translators of Homer, and on mythical beasts.
On the 'Great Phenomenon' of 13 and 14 Nov. [meteor shower]; JH appears to believe that there is an annular ring of very minute planets circling the sun.
Is in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.
Thanks EC for her sonnet; talks about solar photography.
Comments on reports of meteor sightings from the United States and Italy; explains why one may see a satellite of Jupiter where there is none.
Comments on the death of a number of friends, his own poor health, and how he spent the winter working through his double-star observations.
Comments on several aspects of poetry, including EC's; JH has been quite ill; talks about walking on water with a water velocipede.
Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
Thanks for verses on the transit of Mercury; comments on observation of an auroral arch and eclipse observations of the solar corona.
Comments on observations of meteors, comets, and the transit of Mercury.
Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.