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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.
Asked Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] to answer JH's letter regarding two apprentices. Thanks for gift of third coin struck under new Mint system. Congratulates JH and H. D. Harness for successful reform.
Large amounts of gold are arriving from U.S., but Bank of England has little. Is gold accumulating at Royal Mint, or is it passing on to France?
Thanks for explaining disposition of gold belonging to Bank of England but stored at Mint. Suspected that importers of U.S. gold were not selling it to Bank but were privately coining it themselves.
Received specimen coin from JH. It is as good as anything produced by Moneyers.
Responds to JH's letter of 21 Aug. to Henry Rich, who is out of town. Finds nothing that would affect claim made by Mr. Bingley's son. Advises JH to proceed as JH thinks proper.
Anxious to have JH meet the new assistant, Pierce Newton, to be sent to the Cape Observatory.
Thanks JH for his hospitality when AQ visited England. Sending some copies of AQ's writings to be passed on to W. R. Birt.
Wants advice regarding recalculation of magnetic lines using [C. F.] Gauss's method and new numerical data. This will be a provisional calculation.
Regarding the observations on the recent eclipse of the sun.
Description of the recent total eclipse of the sun as seen at Pulkowa Observatory.