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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.
Encourages GA to consider favorably the offer of Hugh Percy [Duke of Northumberland] of donating a telescope to Cambridge Observatory.
Does not believe that GA's proposal [see GA's 1848-5-4] will work.
Details about proposals for magnetic expeditions, as they are to be presented to British government [see GA's 1838-11-12]. Also included is a copy of the resolutions passed at a B.A.A.S. meeting on 25 Aug. 1828.
Brings FF up-to-date on astronomical news in England, and suggests that JH may come to the Cape.
About travel plans once he recovers his health.
Of JG's journey north and the woman who nursed him back to health [letter completed 1826-2-16 at Wandsworth].
About JG's fatigue on his return home.
About JG's health, the need for JH to marry, and plans for the summer.
Asks for information, on behalf of JG's father, about a Cambridge man.
About JG's children and his plans to move to Hastings.
About plans to spend the winter at Hastings.
About the weather and people in Hastings.
JG urges JH to marry. JG has begun to write history again.
Shares some gossip, and asks advice about a dedication for JG's book.
Provides FB, Chairman of the Greenwich Visitation Committee, with detailed recommendations for the preparation of catalogues coming out of the Greenwich observations.
Worried about JH's love life.
About plans for the Christmas season, the weather, history writing, and book publishing.
Of plans to go to London.
About JH's mother's illness, and an invitation to JH to visit Hastings.
About JG's book publisher. Requests support in the application of Granville Sharp Pattison for a professorship at London University [letter completed 1827-1-25].