Regarding JH's letter to the Times on the gold coinage question.
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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.
Regarding JH's letter to the Times on the gold coinage question.
Proposals for new footpath at Slough near his property; would JH object?
Reply to FC's 1869-9-27.
Is moving slowly. Regarding an edition of William Spence's Mathematical Essays edited by JH.
Is delighted to see him astride one of his old hobbies. Regarding the edition of William Spence's Mathematical Essays. Only remembers an 1819 one. His own health is not good.
Regarding a correction to Francis Baily's epitaph. Health is improving slowly.
Is unaware of experiment measuring amount of absolute error in transit measurements. Discusses matters relating to coinage and the standards underlying it.
Corrects a misstatement JH made in his 1869-8-30 letter to the Times.
Notification that a volume of the Melbourne Observatory papers has been dispatched.
Hears that JH has agreed to look through the sheets of his book Inductive Logic. Is very pleased about this and would be grateful for any comments. Is intended as an elementary textbook.
Consider his note on empirical laws as unwritten as he intends introducing a paragraph on this subject. Gives a list of the contents of his book.