Thanks JH for citing CW's 'endeavours in connexion with Mr. [Sherman?].'
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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.
Thanks JH for citing CW's 'endeavours in connexion with Mr. [Sherman?].'
Gratitude on behalf of observatory trustees for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Distributed copies as directed.
As successor to T. F. Colby, WY invites JH to send offered copy of JH's Cape Results to library of Ordnance Survey.
Will announce JH's offer to give [Cape Results] to Philosophical Institution's library.
Gratitude for library's receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude on behalf of Yorkshire Philosophical Society for JH's offer to send Cape Results.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results by Ordnance Survey library.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Offers suggestions from painter [John] Martin on how to alter engravings on steel plates, like those with which JH was dissatisfied.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Please send latitude and longitude of Hawkhurst. Family benefited by trip to Southampton. Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
King of Netherlands received copy of JH's Cape Results and wishes to award gold medal to JH. Does JH accept?
Will call for JH's [Cape Results] when in London. One of WP's assistants reported ring around Neptune last winter, but WP is skeptical. Instruments idle for nine months. WP too busy with [Irish famine] relief. Wrote to T. R. Robinson to find competent assistant.
Praises JH's Cape Results. Sends EC's paper read at Royal Irish Academy, three engravings of EC's 'Circle,' and EC's recent work dabbling 'in other than Astronomical affairs.'
Copy of JH's Cape Results was sent to king of Prussia. Other copies will be forwarded to astronomers in Germany. Note on [Alexander von] Humboldt's itinerary.
In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results, donated to university library. David Brewster is head of St. Andrews College, and Daniel Dewar is head of Marischal College in Aberdeen. Hopes observatory will be complete when B.A.A.S. meets again in Glasgow.
Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results. Just returned from geological tour of highlands with [Bernhard] Studer from Bern [Switzerland]. Hopes to purchase Madame Witte's 'model of the Moon...for Edinburgh,' if it has not been bought in London. Observed Neptune at Oxford in company with U. J. J. Leverrier, J. C. Adams, and Wilhelm Struve.
Gratitude for gift of JH's Cape Results, not yet received. Send copy for [St. Andrews] University through Smith, Elder & Co., booksellers to the university. Concurs with JH on names for asteroids.
Legation does not ordinarily forward parcels to America, but JH's unique reputation leads GB to set a precedent. Instructions for packaging copies [of JH's Cape Results]. S. C. Walker is now at National Observatory in Washington, D.C.