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Herschel5654

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Radcliffe Birt
Date:
[10 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.9
Summary:

Is satisfied with WB's work on meteorology. Comments on WB's intention to diagram the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel585

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.709.131
Summary:

A letter of introduction asking GA to admit Major Robertson and his sisters to the observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander R. Clarke
Date:
[11 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.343 & 24.19
Summary:

Thanks for sending him his memoir on the Figure of the Earth. Comments on this. His son John would find a copy of this memoir of great assistance in his work in India; would he send him one.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6626

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[3 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.3
Summary:

Thanks for a number of items of poetry and sends EC a translation of some poetry by Friedrich Schiller.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6627

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[14 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.6
Summary:

Thanks for a collection of poems; comments on lunar eclipses.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6628

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 December 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.25
Summary:

About a great meteor seen earlier in the year; JH is slowly translating Homer's Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[26 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.363
Summary:

Comments on family health; asks AD if he has read James Challis on the topics of the ether and of zodiacal light.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7156

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[17 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.365 & 24.18
Summary:

Agrees that the weather is hot. The word theodolite. Where did he obtain his verses by Walter Mapes? Why not come and visit them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[27 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.22
Summary:

Comments on Greek fire lead JH into a variety of recollections.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7698

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
Date:
[24 April 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.9; Reel 10
Summary:

[JH's summary of letter] Instructions and corrections relative to data on nebula for JH's catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[19 January 1863]
Source of text:
RAS MSS Add.26.9
Summary:

Austrian consul, Mr. Schaeffer, sent JH one copy of Voyage of the Navara and map, care of R.A.S. If parcel arrives, send it to Smith, Elder & Co.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7804

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Thomas Walker
Date:
[24 December 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.12
Summary:

Received tables of heights recorded in 'Sind, the Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and Central Asia.' Sees scientific interest in JW's described effect of refraction on levelling. Work is important to irrigation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel806

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richarda Airy
Date:
[3 June 1863]
Source of text:
JHS 2,8
Summary:

Passes on recent reports of good news that daughter Caroline is improving, and that JH's wife, Margaret, survived the journey well. [Margaret went to Dublin to be with Caroline when she became very ill at the birth of her daughter Kathleen.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8349

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[19 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.151 (C: RS:HS 24.10)
Summary:

Suggestions on improving JB's gravimetric balance, constructed on principle of 'Bifilar suspension.' Refers to 1861 report of similar invention by J. A. Brown and another article on this topic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8350

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Hodgson
Date:
[15 December 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 152 (C: RS:HS 24.24)
Summary:

Presents eight-volume copy of William Herschel's 'Sweep,' transcribed by late Caroline Herschel. Reviews her career.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[23 November 1863]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Has learned JH has been named to the B.A.A.S. 'Committee of Weights and Measures.' Requests addresses for various members of the committee so that JH can send each a copy of a paper JH published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[27 November 1863]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Does not personally know any members of the committee [Committee for the Restoration of the Standards] except Prof. [William Hallowes] Miller. Consequently, asks GG to distribute JH's paper 'officially.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8659

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Nasmyth]
Date:
[29 September 1863]
Source of text:
Massachusetts Historical Society
Summary:

Gives advice on observing and photographing the sun and moon. Invites JN to visit JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8757

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
Date:
[27 January 1863]
Source of text:
Rosse Papers K2.10
Summary:

Has received letter from Lord Palmerston [Henry John Temple] approving JH's request for a memorial for Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel887

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2?] June 1863
Source of text:
JHS 5.8a
Summary:

Saw J. B. N. Hennessey [who had just come from India] at a Greenwich visitation day, but did not have time to speak to him there. JH will invite him to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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