Unexpected turn; nothing to do but pray it may lead to happiness. One so singularly fitted by talent should be offered position he deserved.
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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.
Unexpected turn; nothing to do but pray it may lead to happiness. One so singularly fitted by talent should be offered position he deserved.
Lady Herschel is valuable friend, having written to TW often in China. TW was to have 'bowed before John Steward' but postponed. Heard of JH's son's intentions from [Alexander Hamilton?] Gordon.
Delayed answering JH's letter. Describes new baby son [Thomas?]. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for note.
Received JH's note. TW's wife Amelia [Herschel] and baby fared poorly in Panama and California. China better now than in 1853-65. Constitution flimsy but still vital. Describes 'Mahometan insurrection.'