Is glad his article on central forces pleased him. Sends one of his latest solutions. Would like a few lines by way of a testimonial. Has been unfortunate when applying for positions as he has lacked support.
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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.
Is glad his article on central forces pleased him. Sends one of his latest solutions. Would like a few lines by way of a testimonial. Has been unfortunate when applying for positions as he has lacked support.
Will be pleased to furnish details of instruments used in a future edition. What does JH think of his attempts to copy his originals?
Is grateful that he has been allowed to dedicate his book to JH. Will incorporate the suggestions.
Sending a copy of a book he has found of great benefit. News of his household. Mrs. Gordon (JH's daughter Caroline) must have been shocked at the death of the Prince Consort.
Estimates seven weeks and £10 to compute JH's nebulae data. Suggests JH use new 'Skeleton Form.'
[Responding to JH's 1862-1-23], states that R.A.S. finances not sufficient to publish JH's 'Catalogue of Nebulae,' but R.S.L. is 'rolling in wealth.' Work could be done at [Greenwich Observatory], where GA is already printing 'Skeleton Forms for Precessions.' Forwarded R.S.L. certificate for [E. J.] Lowe to W. H. Smyth.
Not surprised that actual costs [of publishing JH's catalogue of nebulae] departed from estimates. Reports vote by [R.S.L.] committee. Does not believe publication will be expensive.
Brings coincidence to JH's attention. Believes WL's essay was 'worthy of a better fate.'
Notes on trapping air at different elevations [during balloon ascent]. G. B. Airy and JH will be absent. W. H. Sykes will arrive this evening. Will make another ascent Monday.
Thanks for volume three of WW's Plato edition. Responds to WW's comments on JH's translation of the first section of Homer's Iliad.
Weather has been so interesting lately that he is emboldened to send the enclosed chart. Department is progressing in spite of U. J. J. Leverrier's protest. Picked up one of JH's pamphlets published at the Cape. Sends one of the Meteorological Manuals issued by the Dept.
Comments on barometric readings and the signaling process.
Sending him [Balfour] Stewart's certificate in the hopes that he will add his name to it. Hopes to show him his experiments when he has the time.