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Herschel773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1830-8
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.515
Summary:

About Isabella Stewart's health, MH's toothache, JH's mother's health, and MH's daughter Caroline's good health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1830-8
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.516
Summary:

Is trying to help arrange for a cast to be made of Isabella Stewart's face on her death; MH's daughter Caroline is doing very well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel775

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1830-9
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.517a (C: TxU:H/L-0537.5; Reel 1053)
Summary:

John [Stewart] arrived with news that JH's basket never reached MH. JH will come to London tomorrow. Baby Caroline is at Windsor with grandmother Mary Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8042

From:
Eliza Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.309
Summary:

Asks help in summarizing scientific labors of her late husband, Thomas Young, for memoir by Hudson Gurney. [Addressed to 'William Herschale, Esqr.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8043

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Young
Date:
[12 March 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.310
Summary:

JH agrees to assist Hudson Gurney in writing biography of Thomas Young. Please send catalogue of Young's works. Ask Hudson Gurney to write JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8044

From:
Eliza Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.311
Summary:

Will send engraving of late husband, Thomas Young, to JH. Hudson Gurney nearly finished with memoir. When will JH be done? Wishes to announce biography of Young.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8045

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eliza Young
Date:
[5 June 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.312
Summary:

Received Thomas Young's portrait. Will send summary to Hudson Gurney soon. Suggests correction in proposed title.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8247

From:
J. W. Morton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.54a
Summary:

JH's Board of Longitude salary [£75] from June through Dec. 1828 has not been picked up. If JH does not claim it soon, it will be cancelled.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8248

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. W. Morton
Date:
[12 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.54b (C: RS:HS 21.54)
Summary:

Rejects offer of payment of £75 for serving as a Commissioner of Longitude, explaining that JH has 'ceased to consider myself a public functionary from the moment I became acquainted with the intentions of Government respecting the dissolution of the Board of Longitude.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8249

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[18 February 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.55
Summary:

Laments indiscretion of R.S.L. president [Davies Gilbert], attributing to JH statements JH never made about astronomical observations and James South's telescope. Clarifies what JH actually saw.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8250

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hudson Gurney
Date:
[24 March 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.56
Summary:

Does not wish to see HG's biography of Thomas Young until its publication. Anything JH submits must remain unaltered, with JH's name attached. Will not give reasons. Requests copy of Young's article 'Tides' in Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8251

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hudson Gurney
Date:
[31 March 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.57
Summary:

Send Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes with Thomas Young's article on tides and T. R. Robinson's article on sound. When will HG's [biography of Young] be published?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8252

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[3 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.58 (C: RS:HS 21.67)
Summary:

Misplaced papers are now found. HK must be 'first authority' on scale constructed for Wilhelm Struve. JH improved telescope by separating eyepiece lenses. JH's new baby girl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8253

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[6 June 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.59
Summary:

F. G. W. Struve will arrive in July. Before HK and wife leave for Continent next week, please leave directions how Struve may obtain Struve's scale.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8254

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hudson Gurney
Date:
[25 June 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.60
Summary:

Submits JH's manuscript on Thomas Young's mathematical works for HG's biography of Young. Notes their excessive obscurity. Reasons for insisting that JH's name be added no longer exist. Asks HG's votes for two candidates for Athenaeum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8255

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hudson Gurney
Date:
[24 July 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.61
Summary:

Inadvertently opened draft of Thomas Young's biography sent by HG, but sealed it immediately. Adamant that JH not see this before it is published. Will not change one word of JH's critique of Young's mathematics. If criticism offends Mrs. Young, then burn JH's manuscript.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8256

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hudson Gurney
Date:
[28 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.14
Summary:

Regrets that JH's statements about Thomas Young have offended Young's wife. Appreciates HG's dilemma. Hopes Mrs. Young will find competent person to write Young's biography. Please return JH's manuscript and destroy copies.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8270

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Kater
Date:
[1830 to 1833]-5-31
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.76
Summary:

Arrangements for R.S.L. annual banquet. Lord High Admiral may attend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8482

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 February 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.462
Summary:

Has confirmed the existence of a sixth star in the Nebular Trapezium [of Orion]. Discusses interest among leaders of the Astronomical Society in securing a royal charter. Asks for JH's views.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8483

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.463
Summary:

Reports on discussion in Astronomical Society council whether to favor JH's recommendation of a new nomenclature regarding the angular positions of double stars, or to support JS's preference for William Herschel's method. Other activities concerning the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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