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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.
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.
Provides FB, Chairman of the Greenwich Visitation Committee, with detailed recommendations for the preparation of catalogues coming out of the Greenwich observations.
Would prefer not to write a popular account of William Herschel and his work which DL has requested; JH has always intended to produce a major volume on the life and work of his father.
More on the observations and publication of results of the Greenwich Observatory [see JH's 1831-2-10].
Is writing to inquire about the copyright status of some earlier writings for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; JH is considering collecting some of these early writings, together with others, for a separate publication.
JH writes to excuse himself from a meeting the following day at which Charles Babbage's calculating engine will be discussed.
Of a romance that JG has written.
Requests the return of his manuscript paper on double stars so that he may prepare his presentation to the next meeting of the Astronomical Society.
Asks JH to translate a letter of JG's into French.
About the French Revolution and an anticipated civil war [letter completed 1830-8-25].
Family and travel news.
Of lost letters and the death of Isabella Stewart.
Comments on JH's lost election for President of the R.S.L.
Silly story asking 'what has become of JG?'
Of the health of JH's brother-in-law, John Stewart, and the publication of JH's Prelim. Discourse [letter completed 1831-2-8].
Family news and news of JG's plans for travel.
Of JG's travels in the south of France, fighting in France, and family news.
Family news.