Talks about his loneliness, his wish to be at home with MH, and his concern about MH's contemplated trip to Aberdeenshire.
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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.
Talks about his loneliness, his wish to be at home with MH, and his concern about MH's contemplated trip to Aberdeenshire.
Mostly about attending James Adam Gordon's funeral at Hadham in Hertfordshire.
Feels overwhelmed by the unreasonable expectations of his political masters, and at the same time the new university at Melbourne, Australia wants JH to help find professors.
About where, and how, the older children are to spend their holidays, and about the health of [Mr.] Knowles.
Compares his work day with MH's, and feels that hers is more worthwhile and more pleasant.
Tells a silly story, and then complains about Charles Babbage stopping by and talking about CB's lighthouse.
Of the health of [Mr.] Knowles [servant], a visit to the Baden Powells by JH, and family financial arrangements.
Sending an account of a 'certain Dr [David] Livingstone.' JH agrees with Thomas Maclear that Livingstone deserves encouragement. Has received RM's testimonial on behalf of [Frederick] McCoy.
Arrangements JH has made for admission [to Mint?] for WP and some of WP's friends.