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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.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on completion of many years' labor.
Received JH's Cape Results with joy. JH gives new interest to 'our old friend the Great Bear.' WW thinking of setting up self registering photographic magnetic observatory at Lowestoft.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Marvels at scope of JH's work.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
[Form letter] Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Acknowledgement of receipt of JH's Cape Results by Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
Disappointed not to have seen Sir Harry Smith or JH's family while AS was in Norwich. Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on this 'grand harvest,' a monument to William Herschel's honor. JH is 'now again a free man.'
Acknowledge receipt of JH's Cape Results by Literary and Philosophical Society.
Brief history of library and its 20,000 volumes, many donated. Asks JH to donate copy of JH's Cape Results. Refers JH to Gentleman's Magazine, June 1847, for further information on library.
Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Sending photographs by several artists to show that 'knowledge of the art is spreading.'
Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Gratitude from Council of University of Utrecht for copy of JH's Cape Results donated to library.
Will forward [copies of JH's Cape Results] to Naples.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Thanks JH for a copy of his Cape Results and comments on several other astronomical topics.
A note of thanks for the gift of a copy of JH's Cape Results.
Has received a note from JH and will look after sending it on, but navigation to St. Petersburg will be questionable for the next while. FB enjoyed JH's work [Cape Results] as did the Emperor. JH is given directions how to send a copy to F. G. W. Struve.
Thanks JH for a copy of JH's Cape Results, and indicates that it was also appreciated by the Emperor.
Absence from Aberdeen delayed DD's thanks for Cape Results. Official acknowledgement from [Marischal] College senate will be sent soon.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Glad that Parramatta catalogue was helpful. Laments government decision to do away with Parramatta observatory. TB suffering from rheumatism.