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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.
Bookbinder is inserting epigraphs into selected copies [of JH's Cape Results] for distribution Monday to addresses in London. Took liberty to include four copies for members of Royal Society in Edinburgh. Waiting for JH's instructions for dispatch to Cape of Good Hope.
Received JH's instructions. Six copies [of JH's Cape Results] and 125 epigraphs were sent by rail to JH. If JH will inscribe and return epigraphs, binder can substitute these for those already bound in books.
Received JH's instructions. Fifty cloth copies [of JH's Cape Results] with epigraphs inserted are ready.
J. P. Nichol of Glasgow purchased copy [of JH's Cape Results] before JH's presentation copy reached Nichol. WW found eleven more epigraphs.
Lists ten recipients in England to whom JH sent circular announcing presentation copies [of JH's Cape Results] and portrait of JH.
Copy [of JH's Cape Results] sent to French king. Kings of Hanover and Holland have accepted. AP today paid £1000 to Drummonds [for JH's publishing costs].
Publishing expenses from Smith, Elder & Co. [for Cape Results] are nearly covered by AP's grant [£1000]. Bookbinder James Hayday will dispatch to Northumberland House copies for kings of Holland and Hanover. Details of printing and publishing costs.
Sent copies [of JH's Cape Results] to royal sovereigns in seven nations. Encloses letter from Russian ambassador, F. I. Brunnov. Agrees with JH about 'large Commission' on account for publishers Smith, Elder & Co. AP owes letter to former U.S. minister Edward Everett in Boston; will send [Cape Results] with it.
Will send Edward Everett's copy [of JH's Cape Results] to Northumberland House. Everett was elected principal of Harvard College but resigned. Returns letter from Russian ambassador, F. I. Brunnov. Now that AP has sent copies to foreign sovereigns, JH will send to their ministers those copies destined for [observatories and institutions in] their nations.
Sent Cape Results to Belgian king. Will forward other copies to recipients in Brussels. Names universities that would appreciate receiving copies.
Will forward copies of JH's Cape Results to recipients in Denmark.
Gratitude for receipt of 'splendid volume' [JH's Cape Results].
Received JH's Cape Results.
Received personal copy of JH's Cape Results, and three for College Library, J. C. Adams, and Cambridge Philosophical Society. Please advise on propriety of sending letter of thanks to Duke of Northumberland [Algernon Percy]. [9 Aug.postscript:] Visited [T. W.] Hornbuckle last week.
[Form letter] Institution of Civil Engineers acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude for Cape Results. Placed it next to account of the Northumberland Equatorial and Dome.
Gratitude for [Cape Results]. Feels JH 'let off [James] Dunlop in a softer stile than he deserves.'
Gratitude for Cape Results. Special comments on JH's 'method of sequences' and cometary theory. Refers to article on Halley's Comet in Astronomische Nachrichten. Reports observations of Saturn's satellites and orbit of Gamma Virginis.
Received JH's note of 8 [Aug 1847] and went immediately to Smith, Elder & Co., but no copies [of JH's Cape Results] were ready. Will gladly transmit them to recipients designated by JH.
Assures JH that [Cape Results] will receive warm welcome in libraries of India. Suggests other recipients there. Send copies with dispatches from India House.