Is in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.
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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 in poor health; laments poor reception of his translation of the Iliad.
Thanks EC for her sonnet; talks about solar photography.
Comments on reports of meteor sightings from the United States and Italy; explains why one may see a satellite of Jupiter where there is none.
Comments on the death of a number of friends, his own poor health, and how he spent the winter working through his double-star observations.
Comments on several aspects of poetry, including EC's; JH has been quite ill; talks about walking on water with a water velocipede.
Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
Thanks for verses on the transit of Mercury; comments on observation of an auroral arch and eclipse observations of the solar corona.
Comments on observations of meteors, comets, and the transit of Mercury.
Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.
Comments on poetry, EC's and Robert Browning's; talks about the bicycle.
Thanks for the gift of a sonnet; JH too much in figures to allow the muse to repay the gift.
Thanks for the volume of EC's verse; comments on various aspects of poetry.
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Of toads in rocks and stones, and martins in blocks of ice under rivers.
Comments on spelling reform being attempted in Germany and the United States, and being proposed in England.
Comments on the attitude of the French towards the Germans in light of the war.
More remarks relating to French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9]. Thanks EC for more poetry and an account of an earthquake she experienced. JH is in poor health.
Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].