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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.
Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.
Comments on the state of JH's health, color blindness, missing R.A.S. Notices, and decimal coinage.
Is concerned about the receipt of AH's accounts; lectures AH about the danger of moving into someone else's room [more luxurious] for the vacation; finally asks AH to discover who among the 'university-men' is color-blind, and to what degree.
Plans to sell JH's property at Upton, including tenement Holloway occupies, to neighbors.
Compliments HW's expression for the formula for coefficients of differences of the odd powers of zero. JH busy, but hopes soon to develop demonstration.
Happy to hear that [new Sydney mint] is going well. JH confined with painful illness since Mar. 1855; still unable to walk or stand upright without support. Aluminium may be used in coins, but JH doubts it will replace iron in pots and pans. War is ended, but people worry about further Russian aggression.
Deals with the computation of a tax matter [regarding Observatory House in Slough?].
Conveys his confidence in the appropriateness of the certificate of proficiency awarded by the Society of Arts to men who have done well on the Society's examination.
Has no changes to make in JH's Admiralty Manual.
JH, having examined the accounts, finds the charges for the medals fit with Leonard C. Wyon's agreement.
Declares his confidence in the certificates of proficiency about to be awarded by the Society of Arts.
Sorry to have given him the trouble over the box; sends the required letter. Unfair of the Times to blame AH for the disasters in the Crimea.