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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.
It has been a long time since he last heard from him. Very busy with professional pursuits. Congratulations on receiving the Copley medal. Would like an abstract of his article on aberrations in chromatic lenses. Comments on this.
Has been unable to answer his letters due to the King's visit. Refrained from writing on hearing of the death of W. Herschel. His paper on the absorption of light will appear in the next number of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Comments on this. Grateful for any astronomical news. Advice welcomed on memoir of W. Herschel.
Is extremely sorry to hear the news of the death of William Herschel. Regarding F. W. Bessel's polar distances in relation to his own, and possible reasons for their difference. Has been working on the Greenwich observations.
Would like a few of his poems so that she can publish them in an anthology.
Thanking him for poetry. Would like some more, written on a different subject and under better conditions.
Thanking him for his poems. Will print some; is returning the remainder.
Has only had 100 copies of his own tables printed. Difficulties as to whom he should send them. Regarding the observations of the old astronomers. Any news regarding the printing of Giuseppe Piazzi's paper?
Regarding a suitable date for the next meeting of Council. Construction of tables. Regulations regarding auditors.
Reasons why JH was unable to see the Atlas when he called.
Regarding H. C. Schumacher's Nachrichten. Astronomical observations. Regarding foreign correspondents for the Astronomical Society.
Regarding the plan of the tables for the places of the principal stars. Will be unable to attend the meeting of council on Friday. Will send memorandum for discussion.
Wishes to resign from the secretaryship of the Astronomical Society.
Regarding the method of dispatch of papers for foreign members.
Regarding the tables. Would like to see J. J. Littrow's observations. Regarding the printing of various papers in the memoirs.
Further regarding the transmission of papers abroad. Encloses a copy of his own paper on the formula of J. J. Littrow. Astronomical matters.
Has been absent and is sending letter he found on return, and a copy of his own remarks on J. J. Littrow's formula. Regarding the best method of procuring the Memoirs. Can lend him a copy of W. T. Brande's Journal if he would like it.
Forgot to mention it last time they were together that another mammoth has been found at Trumpington. This agrees with G. C. L. D. Cuvier's theories. Regarding the ore JH has just analyzed.
Thanks for his kind note. Mr. Harrison wishes him to prepare a paper for the R.S.L. Will find his experiments continued in the next number of Thomson's Annals. As soon as his blow pipe is repaired he will let him know.
Returning sincere thanks for the memorial inscribed with the name of JH's illustrious father. It rests with JH and his companions how posterity will judge the present age.
Has received the first book of the Memoirs of the Astronomical Society but had to pay duty on the packet.