A note enclosing a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, on which JH is requested to comment.
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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.
A note enclosing a copy of a letter from the Admiralty, on which JH is requested to comment.
Regarding estimates and payment for a parallectical mounting.
Regarding the condition for determining the best possible orbit for a double star.
Letter of introduction for Professor [J.?] Hoffer of Vienna.
Regarding the printing of JH's countings field-falls of stars.
Just returned from nine weeks on the continent. Met Miss Caroline Herschel, who mentioned a catalogue of John Flamsteed's stars to which she had attached some notes.
Is thinking of writing an account of the new planet.
Regarding the slow motion screw in declination.
Regarding his paper about the new planet. Attacks by article in the Athenaeum.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's table for the Huygenian satellite. On early chronology.
Regarding Johann Lamont's numbers.
Lists the contents of a parcel being sent.
Domestic news. Further regarding telescopes and slow motion in declination.
Sends extracts of a letter from H. C. Schumacher. Does not agree with Schumacher regarding F. W. Bessel's 'specific attraction.'
Regarding W. S. Stratford and the printing of the catalogues. F. W. Bessel's star corrections.
Regarding F. W. Bessel's doubt concerning the law of gravitation.
Is sending papers, from an American, for JH's opinion.
Regarding pamphlets concerning F. W. Bessel. Altitude instrument finished.
Concerning Thomas Henderson's reductions of N. L. Lacaille's observations.
Regarding the final payments for the Liverpool Telescope.