About JH's mother, and the behavior of Charles Babbage.
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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.
About JH's mother, and the behavior of Charles Babbage.
More about Charles Babbage [see JH's 1827-2-11]; requests JH's assistance to gain entry to the British Museum library.
About the state of JG's health, and his feelings about slavery.
Regrets what MPH told JH yesterday about Slough estate. If JH receives good offer, he may do what he judges best.
Requests JH make any necessary corrections in WR's paper on 'Diff[erential] Thermometer.' Thanks JH for his efforts on behalf of WR.
Asking for the procedure for bringing business before the Board of Longitude. Has found solar tables incorrect.
Requesting permission to borrow Christiaan Huygens's telescope. Postscript of further remarks on the solar tables.
Views as to whether her husband would be interested in applying for the professorship at Oxford.
Thanking him for his letter and giving him news concerning the recent death of her father-in-law.
Gives JH news of Charles Babbage's plan to apply for the Savilian chair of mathematics at Oxford.
[Charles Babbage] should understand that no effort will be made for 'alien' unless that candidate offers himself. Since William Buckland suggested Babbage for the position, let Buckland take the initiative.