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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.
Still has not heard from JH. Has put much effort into horary observations of solstices and equinoxes. Sends JH articles by AQ on temperatures of earth. Will send magnetic observations.
Has been very busy observing so has had little time to spare for writing letters. Remarks on the recent star catalogues which he has received. Would FB bring Capt. J. A. Lloyd's case to Frederick Augustus (Duke of Sussex). Sun spots. Meteors in N. America and those at the Cape.