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Herschel5234

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[19 October 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.180 & 20.153
Summary:

Destroy or return the article given him on Thursday. Has found something better.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5235

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 October 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.181
Summary:

Regarding the copying of the painting by William Artaud. Send it by coach if possible. Meeting of the Astronomical Society Council and matters arising from it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5236

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[5 December 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.182 & 20.158
Summary:

Regarding the Cambridge affair. Has had a letter from the Edinburgh Society of Arts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5399

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1822?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.346
Summary:

Has had a letter from George Peacock. Regarding the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5576

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.66
Summary:

Thanks JH for FB becoming Associate member of Astronomical Society; FB is planning to prepare a new major star catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5577

From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 July 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.67
Summary:

Thanks JH for some papers, sends some of his own; comments about errors in Greenwich star catalogue.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5667

From:
Miles Bland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 June 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.155
Summary:

JH has been appointed a Lay-fellow. It entails no duties. The present body regards it as an honor to retain JH's name.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5680

From:
Johann Elert Bode
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.168
Summary:

Thanks for the Nautical Almanac. Still requires R.S.P.T. for 1817. Through Francis Baily he will receive copies of his Yearbook, one for his father and one for the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5778

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.255
Summary:

It has been a long time since he last heard from him. Very busy with professional pursuits. Congratulations on receiving the Copley medal. Would like an abstract of his article on aberrations in chromatic lenses. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
David Brewster
Date:
[24 July 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 20.148
Summary:

Accompanies a paper JH was submitting to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Discusses motion of light rays in Apophyllite and various optical writings of DB.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5780

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.256
Summary:

Has been unable to answer his letters due to the King's visit. Refrained from writing on hearing of the death of W. Herschel. His paper on the absorption of light will appear in the next number of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Comments on this. Grateful for any astronomical news. Advice welcomed on memoir of W. Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5805

From:
John Brinkley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 November 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.275
Summary:

Is extremely sorry to hear the news of the death of William Herschel. Regarding F. W. Bessel's polar distances in relation to his own, and possible reasons for their difference. Has been working on the Greenwich observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5893

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.18
Summary:

Would like a few of his poems so that she can publish them in an anthology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5894

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.19
Summary:

Thanking him for poetry. Would like some more, written on a different subject and under better conditions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5895

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.20
Summary:

Thanking him for his poems. Will print some; is returning the remainder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5922

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.45
Summary:

Has only had 100 copies of his own tables printed. Difficulties as to whom he should send them. Regarding the observations of the old astronomers. Any news regarding the printing of Giuseppe Piazzi's paper?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5923

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.46
Summary:

Regarding a suitable date for the next meeting of Council. Construction of tables. Regulations regarding auditors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5924

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.47
Summary:

Reasons why JH was unable to see the Atlas when he called.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5925

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.48
Summary:

Regarding H. C. Schumacher's Nachrichten. Astronomical observations. Regarding foreign correspondents for the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5926

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 March 1822]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.49
Summary:

Regarding the plan of the tables for the places of the principal stars. Will be unable to attend the meeting of council on Friday. Will send memorandum for discussion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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