Has received 50 copies of the enclosed work [?]. Stresses its value.
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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.
Has received 50 copies of the enclosed work [?]. Stresses its value.
Regarding the observations of JH and Giuseppe Piazzi on 'Comae.'
Will be happy to accommodate him.
Meeting with J. C. Spencer (Viscount Althorp) next Wednesday at Downing St.
Will be pleased to accompany him to the observatory on Thursday. Hopes that by then he and C. G. B. Daubeny will have recovered.
Unable to receive him on Wednesday; hopes he can manage Thursday.
Has delayed writing in order to assist JH's friend. Is sending the medal to his agent in London.
Regrets he was not there when JH called at the Mint; otherwise his reception would have been different.
Has just seen her brother who will be able to find the color-blind French artist's address if JH can send her his name.
Sending her last series of photographs. Comments on her photographic work.
Part of a love poem.
Family news.
Is grateful for his kind advice and will bear it in mind when at Oxford.
Sending to the R.S.L. his memoir on the theory of light. Comments on his own theories.
Is grateful for his kind gift of the book. Hopes he will be able to visit them.
Will take charge of the chronometers for Capt. Richard Copeland. Will convey anything else JH has for the Mediterranean. Too busy to reply to his letter yesterday.
Would be grateful if he would deliver the enclosed [note?] when he arrives at Florence as it concerns his baggage. Hopes he experiences no ill effects from his stay in Rome.
Many thanks for his Latin translation of the poem. H. M. Parker is publishing them and will advise him.
Intended calling on him after he sent the papers, but was prevented. Has had discussions with W. T. Brande about the duties of the secretaries and will see JH about this at the club.
Is returning James South's papers. Will discuss publication matters on Thursday. Encloses a communication from [Thomas?] Weaver. What shall he do about [William?] Nicol?