Trivia about life in Dawlish [letter completed 1827-8-31].
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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.
Trivia about life in Dawlish [letter completed 1827-8-31].
Is sailing for Buenos Ayres in a few days' time. Would like to thank JH for his kindness; would also like to see him, if convenient, before he departs.
Has received the actinometer safely by the hand of Mr. De Lavigne, also the instructions. Hopes to use it in the Alps, and will send some observations. De Lavigne was enchanted with England.
Renders an accounting of expenses for optical goods received from Germany.
Lacks information on Augustin Fresnel. Praises JH's drawing as rendering unnecessary annexing one to his paper. Has not yet unpacked the new telescope sent by John Ramage.
Thanks JH for sending his second catalog of double stars; remarks that 'by the manner in which you gentlemen now attack the starry heavens, it seems that there will soon remain nothing to be discovered.'
Will be traveling to Hampshire. Agrees with Richard Sheepshanks over the papers on the Comet. Hopes JH will be able to visit him in Hampshire. Remarks on J. B. Delambre's History of Astronomy.
Has been trying to see him, unsuccessfully, about the affairs of the Optical Glass Committee. Hopes that JH will not resign from the Committee now that he is no longer Secretary at the R.S.L.