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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.
Writing on behalf of John Russell, asks that JH inquire about the suitability of T. J. Paterson for a position teaching in the Government Schools at the Cape of Good Hope. Mentions Thomas McBean.
On 1 Jan. 1840, JH's family laid William Herschel's 40-foot reflector to rest by singing a song (enclosed). Mentions Hammerfest instruments.
As JH has tried many varnishes he wonders if he has ever tried shellac. Has tried it on specimens of brass. Many thanks for his invitation.
Hopes to send him the lease tomorrow. If JH is coming to town will be able to see him after 10 a.m. Has written to Mr. Forbes.
Forwarding the draft of the proposed lease. The deeds are to be sent to Dover for registration.
Has just returned from a trip to Hanover, and has decided not to place his son there in accordance with advice received while he was there. Met Miss Herschel. Travelled via Belgium and met A. H. Dumont, a very original and intelligent geologist.