Received GM's letter of 20 Mar., stating GM's position for official record. Regrets that GM interpreted conversations with JH and H. D. Harness in manner that led to so many misunderstandings. Asks for early reply from GM regarding office of Melter.
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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.
Received GM's letter of 20 Mar., stating GM's position for official record. Regrets that GM interpreted conversations with JH and H. D. Harness in manner that led to so many misunderstandings. Asks for early reply from GM regarding office of Melter.
Announces that Robert Mushet accepted office of Melter, which GM declined. When does GM want to terminate contract as Melter and Refiner? Draw up GM's claims for compensation and JH will forward these to Treasury.
[P.S. to letter of 28 Sept. 1851:] JH wrote to J. W. Morrison about GM's claim to melting pots in refinery. Asks GM to clarify Mint records regarding pots. [JH note: Excerpts from Mint records, 1820-1844, outlining history of stopped pots in Mint refinery.]
Formal notice of termination of GM's contracts as first clerk, melter, and refiner at the Mint.