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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.
HH learned only this morning that JH will attend today's meeting of Mint board. Lists all formalities and business at R. L. Sheil's first board meeting. Does JH want to follow this same procedure? If so, meeting should be postponed until Friday to prepare documents.
Invites JH to dinner next Monday to meet African missionary J. L. Krapf.
Grateful for JH's approval of RK's efforts on behalf of 'enlightened education.' Congratulations on JH's appointment to Mastership of Mint.
Compliments JH's list of questions [for Cambridge University Commission to discuss]. Issues that GP wants to discuss.
Changes to questions prepared by GP and JH for tutors [at Cambridge University].
Has not heard from JH since sending JR's moon globe to JH by way of Paul Mendelsohn. Asks for JH's opinion of globe and whether it would be proper for JR to send others to royalty in England.
Letters patent for JH's appointment as Master of Mint were officially sealed yesterday. Will send statement for fees soon.
Please return Queen's Warrant for Coining for correction of erroneous date.
Corrected Queen's Warrant for Coining and returns it to JH.
Directs JH to investigate international supply and demand for gold and silver and to make projection for next twenty years. Refer to [J. R.] Macculloch and [James?] Wilson for information.
Grateful for JH's letters of introduction. Met Prince Albert. Edward Sabine arranged for meteorological observations in Alps by AS and brother Hermann to be published by Longmans. Plans more observations of geology and atmospheric chemistry. Alexander Humboldt advised AS to ask JH where to apply for financial support.
Returned from Ireland. Invites JH to call on RS.
Needs to know date of JH's [letters] patent, to compute salary for RS's final pay period as Master of Mint.
Thanks for signing certificate for [C. M.] Elliott. Sends extracts from George Buist's history of heat storms in India, with evidence of great masses of ice dropped by these storms.
Fees paid on appointment of private individuals were reduced but not abolished. JH's fee upon appointment as Master of Mint will be two-thirds of former fee for that office.
Encloses two letters from WW, one to R. L. Shiel in Oct. 1850, and one to JH, as Shiel's successor, dated 17 Dec. 1850. Both letters state WW's response to Shiel's announcement of proposed changes in organization of Mint. Appeals to JH to reconsider plan to deprive WW of use of Mint machinery for WW's private engraving contracts. Protests abolition of office of probationer engraver, for which WW's son has been training.
Offers congratulations on JH's new position [Master of Mint]. Recalls 'our water-pipe operations at Cape Town fifteen years ago' [1835]. Speculates on water wave theory. Pity for 'poor Charles Bell.'
Sends letter from [Alexander] von Humboldt and HS's new book on the geography of the Alps. Would like to visit JH at Collingwood.
Congratulates JH on his important new position [Mint]; wants to start seriously to prepare for July 1851 solar eclipse [see JH's 1850-8-18 or later].
Will be very busy learning his new job for a while, so GA should start working with other committee members; JH makes some suggestions about eclipse observation [see GA's 1850-12-14].