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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.
Has received letters from the Admiralty, which have allayed all his previous distress. Is to receive two telescopes. Weather has been unsuitable for observations.
Has delayed answering his letters owing to the health of his father. Grieves to hear of the health of FF. Board of Longitude are fully behind FF. Does not agree with some of FF's proposals.
Announcing his election to the Astronomical Society. Would welcome any communications. Sends reports to M. A. Pictet and thanks for his communications on barometric height. Would be very pleased to be of assistance at any time.
Thanks for his election to the Astronomical Society. Gives details of his recent activities and those of M. A. Pictet.
Sending 3 copies of a paper for his personal use and the Astronomical Society. Is grateful for the interest JH takes in his own work. Outlines recent astronomical activities of himself and M. A. Pictet. Intends visiting England.
Regarding the inscription, and why he has recast it instead of altering it.
Hopes his second paper will not falsify the opinion. Would like his objections or comments.
Hopes he will be more pleased with the version of the epitaph he is enclosing. Would like to discuss it with him if he has the time to spare.
About their relationship.
Comments on the need to travel, and on the boredom of the meetings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; family news.
Comments on library facilities available to JG, followed by family news.
Invites JH to go to the Netherlands with JG.
Further on JG's travel plans [see JG's 1822-7-15].
Family news on JG's return from the Continent.
Some news from Amsterdam, and some family news.