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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.
Financial matters are dealt with relating to the purchase of a telescope [for Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope].
A note accompanying a letter from Thomas Maclear, forwarded to JH.
Informs ES [President of the Royal College of Surgeons] that JH is unable to attend the Hunterian Oration and the dinner.
Caroline Herschel's death and funeral. Awaiting JH's instructions for disposition of property and headstone inscription. Erroneous biographies appearing in French and German papers. Encloses copy of response from Mr. Hahn, bookseller, to manuscript by Margaret Louisa Herschel. [P.S., 3 Feb. 1848] Accidentally burned JH's Latin inscription for Caroline Herschel. Does JH have copy?
Writes about matters relating to the death of JH's aunt Caroline.
Writes of the death of JH's aunt Caroline. Is happy that Caroline is at rest. Describes funeral. Deals with some matters related to servants and other business matters.
About legal matters related to the death of Aunt Caroline, as well as identifying friends and dignitaries who paid their respects. Deals with bills to be paid, and with the question of a memorial tablet in the church.
Responds to some of JH's concerns [see JH's 1847-12-30] about changes in instrumentation at the Royal Observatory.
A note accompanying a printed circular about the proposed changes in instrumentation at the Royal Observatory. [Encloses GA's circular to Board of Visitors.]
Proposes changes in the buildings at the Royal Observatory to accommodate the shifting of one of the telescopes [see GA's 1848-1-6].
Responds to a number of JH's concerns about buildings, instruments and printing at the Royal Observatory [see JH's 1848-1-22 & 1847-12-30].
Wants a meeting of the Board of Visitors to determine the extent of time to be given to magnetic and meteorological observations at the Royal Observatory.
Wants to be supplied with a copy of RH's work on the 'poetry of science' [RH's Poetry of Science, 1848].
Thanks RH for a copy of RH's Poetry of Science, and comments on an experiment in growing seeds under glass and in darkness.
Writes to a lady at Slough to thank her for her kindness to JH's son [?].
Writes to tell of arrangements whereby the recipient of the letter may pick up a copy of JH's Cape Results.
Replies to JH's letter of [9]-11 stating that he will do the article on statistics for JH's Admiralty Manual, and outlines what he expects it to include and to exclude. Asks JH for directions.
States he has complied with Lord Auckland's and JH's wishes on the statistical section of the Admiralty Manual but fears such restrictions leave it little more than 'dry bones.'
Writes about 'floss[?]-growers of Kent' in response to JH's letter. Characterizes the activity as a form of lottery and profit-making in the context of the free-trade/protectionist debate.
Submits a paper [on ethnology] for JH's Admiralty Manual. Welcomes information from JH on the subject.