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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.
Is pleased JH has such a high opinion of the new work on the English universities; it has hardly been noticed by the public. V. A. Huber belongs to the Conservative party but tries to be impartial as a historian. Hopes that the amount of reading at universities will be reduced.
Regarding Benjamin Peirce's Elementary Treatise on Sound. Can lend him his own copy if JH has no copy.
Has sent the book. Gives an outline of his own work and ideas he has for the improvement of the piano. Would like JH's comments.
Is much obliged for letter and pretty specimen of English hexameters. Is sad that there has been no success with the classical hexameter in our language. Comments on its use.
Sending some pages from the Mechanics Magazine containing details of clock escapements, superior to those at present in use.
Has placed Mr. Yorke's room at JH's disposal; gives times of meals.
Will find one friend at the R.S.L. Club dinner next Thursday.
May he submit JH's name as a candidate for the Honorary membership of the Literary Society; gives list of the other candidates.
Was pleased to receive his letter and the enclosure; the latter he would like to retain for a few days to show it to interested persons.
Showed JH's marvelous production to Sir Robert Peel, who was much struck with it.
Has invited Charles Grant (Baron Glenelg) to breakfast tomorrow; will JH join them?
Is grateful for his letter regarding the Portland vase; has shown it to Peel, who has agreed to introduce a short bill to protect such properties. Will read JH's letter to the Trustees.
Solicitor General is to introduce a Bill for the better protection of 'things' in Museums. Does not include the National Gallery. The culprit in the Portland vase incident was an Irish student. Is JH dining at the R.S.L. Club on the 27th?
Will find certain friends at the R.S.L. Club on Thursday, including Edward Everett, the American Minister in England.
Thanks for his kind letter. Congratulations on another addition to his family.
Hopes all his family are well. If JH proposes to attend the Trustees meeting of the British Museum on Saturday, will he breakfast with RI and Dr. T. R. Robinson of Armagh?
Wishes him the compliments of the season. Can JH dine with RI and Edward Sabine next Wednesday?
JH's letter grieves him, but he will convey his decision to the Trustees. Has just heard of the death of the Archbishop [of Canterbury, William Howley].
Has written a letter to Mrs. James Maclaren and enclosed three orders of admission to the British Museum.
Sending a letter on the Orthography of the African language from a friend of his, the Rev. Henry Venn. Would be grateful if JH could help him.