Is grateful for MB'S Ode to Sensibility. Regarding the Lords of the Level.
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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.
Is grateful for MB'S Ode to Sensibility. Regarding the Lords of the Level.
Regarding his own theory of the determination of heights by the barometer, which has been modified by reading JH's pamphlet on Meteorology.
Has sent on the correspondence about K. L. C. Rümker's Southern Catalogue. Has recorded his vote in favor of the £150 for the reduction. Proposes sending his eldest son to Paris to study French and Art.
Has not heard from him for a long time; hopes his health is still good. Was sorry to hear of the death of Whewell. Sends a proof that has been puzzling him for a long time, and a French riddle.
Comments on JH's health, the death of William Whewell, and extended comments on a mathematical proof provided by AD [see AD's 1866-4-1].
Considers JH's account of his own health tolerably good. The Odyssey will set him up entirely. Sends proof of one of his theorems. New professorship of International Law. Should jot down biographical details of William Whewell for the R.S.L.
Mostly talks about having been offered some money to pay for the reduction of William Herschel's [JH's father] double star observations in preparation for publication.
Please thank Dr. Gardner for his 'Calendar for the Correction of Dates.'
Responds to MH's report on the health of [?]; JH and family went out nightingale hunting last night. [Also enclosed is a short letter from daughter Amelia to MH.]