Unable to send Gamma Virginis observations because papers are packed. Declines offer of WS's transit circle for use at Cape.
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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.
Unable to send Gamma Virginis observations because papers are packed. Declines offer of WS's transit circle for use at Cape.
Excuses himself from a dining engagement; JH is too busy preparing for a voyage.
Informs JH that WS has sent fifth catalogue of double stars by [H. C.] Schumacher. Provides African address. Departure by 20 October on 'Mt. Stewart Elphinston—a superb India ship.' Notifies of [Thomas] Maclear's succeeding [Thomas] Henderson at Cape observatory.
Asks for reply to specific questions regarding telescope quality and price [see JH's 1833-8-29].
Describes sighting while at Slough a remarkably bright occurrence of the aurora borealis.
More about arrangements with R. A. Cauchoix and the telescope for Cambridge Observatory; JH also comments on the state of his nebula work.
Reports on hysterical fit by one of the young servants, and comments on the appropriateness of recommending employment elsewhere for another servant (a request for a recommendation is enclosed). JH alludes to some matter troubling his relationship with MH; Thomas Maclear is about to leave for the Cape.
Painful reflections on the problem troubling the relationship between JH and MH [see JH's 1833-9-25], namely, money, and how it is spent; JH offers some advice with much love.
Packing and domestic arrangements related to Cape voyage preparations.
Mostly about what to pack where; JH concludes with a loving apology for what he said and wrote [see JH's 1833-9-26]; question about re-arranged sitting for JH with H. W. Pickersgill.