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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.
Relates experiences while on a 10 day visit to Ireland. Now waiting for a train to Aberdeen. Professor [Philip?] Kelland injured in rail accident at Hitchin. Comments on the carelessness of railway workers. Agitation again at the Cape over the recall of Sir George Grey. Jack [TM's son?] has received orders for service, perhaps China.
Wishes to apply for the vacancy that has occurred in the Superintendance of the Nautical Almanac, and would welcome JH's support.
Is a candidate for the position of Radcliffe Observer and would be pleased if JH would send a testimonial to the Radcliffe Trustees.
Is grateful to JH for sending him a copy of the Essay on Meteorology. Takes an interest in the subject himself and gives his views on cyclones and rotary storms.
It was good of JH to reply so fully to his letter. Now has a better understanding of the subject than before. Read a paper on the geology of the Lake District at the local Philosophical Society. Comments on his own theories of rock foundations.
Is sending JH a book recounting some of CM's researches. Comments on various factors influencing conductance in carrying out experiments in electricity and telegraphy. [Letter illegible in parts.]
Thanks for JH's article on Physical Geography from the new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Comments on this and gives details of some of his own researches into the causes of ocean currents.
Recently came across some instructions JH had drawn up for persons who are color blind. Sends a note explaining the work of William Pole on this same subject. Has left the manufactory at Ipswich.
Sends a small fragment chipped from the second great bell. Comments on the metal of the bell and the causes of the cracks. Unable to attend the R.S.L. dinner tomorrow.
Has received the papers JH sent and values them highly. Can JH advise him on making regular observations of sun spots. Explains his apparatus.
The yellow substance turns out to be pentasulfide of arsenic, with a slight excess of sulfur; comments on its properties.
Thanks for the photographic notes and for the remarks on color blindness. The remarks on the composition of colors interested him as he has difficulty in distinguishing shades of brown and green.
Offering seats for the funeral of Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington) in St. Paul's.
Compliments to the Herschels. Was interested in JH's article in the last number of Good Words. A long time since he has seen Alexander Herschel.
Thanks for his articles on the prediction of time; comments on it. Has been translating an article of John Tyndall.
Has received the letter and invitation. Will travel to Etchingham station and walk to Collingwood.
Sending two volumes of his own Cosmos. Regrets he did not visit him in 1857.
Would like to dedicate to JH a book on climatology that AM is preparing.
Letter accompanying AM's book on climatology.
Will JH add his signature to the slip to add to the memorial to prevent the Natural History collections being removed from the British Museum.