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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.
Gives details of William Herschel's youth, to correct errors in TP's anecdote about WH in Stroud Journal.
Has just received the Stroud Journal and TP's letter. Thinks it a fair and proper thing that TP has done. His own letter had no sinister insinuation.
Thanks for letter regarding his prediction of the floods. May be partly to blame as he did mention certain happenings that could be the result of solar phenomenon. Comments on this. If WP communicates this to a paper would like two or three copies.
Finds FP's paper [see FP's 1864-7] interesting, but does not believe his proposal has any hope of acceptance.
Thanks CP for sending volumes of Astronomische Nachrichten. JH notes missing copies in his collection, and asks how he might best obtain these volumes.
Comments on the mathematical ratios in chords at some length, in answer to RP's 1869-11-18.
Is interested to hear of SN's anti-seasickness invention, especially as JH has just devised a swing-cot for the same purpose.
On the significance of the full moon and its influence on the weather.
Is translating Homer's Iliad and has heard a verse is missing from the standard versions. Can WM help?
Comments that the sound of the waves on the seashore seems louder as the rhythm matches the pulse of the heart.
Has been asked to comment on the writings of Hermann von Schlagintweit, but JH has not yet had time to read them carefully and so cannot comment.
States unequivocally that the letter referred to in JS's 1864-10-11 has not 'a syllable' that can in any way affect the question of the conduct or character of the late Humphry Davy. JH could not conceive of publication of the letter without the express consent of the other person mentioned in it [Charles Babbage].
After collecting and reducing all nebula observations by JH and William Herschel, JH objects to GA's suggestion that JH should pay for calculations needed to prepare catalogue of nebulae. Hesitates to request additional funds from R.S.L.
Acknowledges receipt of Royal Observatory's astronomical, meteorological, and magnetic observations for 1863.
Concerned about 'Commercial weight' of new standard of weights and measures.
Not aware of any changes in trust fund status of T. H. Hollier since Jan. 1860.
Not aware of any changes in trust fund status of T. H. Hollier since 1861. Returns letter to bank accountant.
Signed and returned accountant's form. Delays reply until JH can confer with other trustees [of Hollier Trust Fund].
Attempts to clarify claims published by John Davy concerning whether his brother Humphry Davy had in 1827 promised Charles Babbage a position as secretary of the R.S.L.
Charles Babbage instructed JH to send TA's and JS's enquiry to [Charles] Few & Co., solicitors to Hollier Trust Fund.