Thanks JH for his letter, and RW sends on additional writings in astronomy.
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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.
Thanks JH for his letter, and RW sends on additional writings in astronomy.
Had written previously to JH to obtain more information about JH's father, William. Is now asking JH for a response to the same requests.
Because RW has had no response from JH, he is worried that if the letter and printed material were not lost, then JH must be dissatisfied with what RW had written about JH's father, William.
Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.
Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.
Thanks RW for sending copies of RW's memoir on JH's father. States that JH has now revised a catalogue of all JH's father's double stars.