Depressed over wife's serious illness.
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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.
Depressed over wife's serious illness.
JG's wife died, and he has been sick in body and spirit.
About letter writing, and the joy JG receives from his children.
Coming to terms with the death of his wife and with his new life [letter completed 1818-12-8].
Family news and other matters [letter completed 1819-2-23].
Family news and ramblings [letter completed 1819-5-23].
Of Charles Babbage's visit, family news, and lawsuits.
Chastises JH for misbehavior along with Charles Babbage, discusses the parlous state of the country's affairs, expresses interest in the history of astronomy, and sends family news [letter completed 1819-10-8].
Of Charles Babbage, family, public affairs, and law suits [letter completed 1819-11-15].
Of family, Walter Scott's novels, and affairs in Scotland and Spain.
Recollections of this house JG has just sold.
Of religious matters, accusations against the Queen, and of Charles Babbage [letter completed 1820-11-4].
Offers JH the consolations of religion to deal with his unhappiness.
Family news.
Family news, JG's reduced circumstances, and public affairs.
On the loss of a friend's wife and child, the death of Napoleon, and on the JH/JG correspondence.
About their relationship.
Comments on the need to travel, and on the boredom of the meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; family news.
Comments on library facilities available to JG, followed by family news.
Invites JH to go to the Netherlands with JG.