Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.
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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.
Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.
Has not heard from him for a long time. He himself has been suffering with debility. Has done no maths. Is moving at midsummer to a new house at Merton Road.
On AD's and JH's illnesses; asks AD about Latin verses of the medieval period.
Regarding middle Latin poets and similar English ones. Hopes JH's health improves with the advent of Spring.
Delayed answering JH's letter. Describes new baby son [Thomas?]. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for note.
Recommends artisan to restore portrait of William Herschel. [Henry] Hardcastle and wife [Maria Sophia Herschel] visited TW's lodgings, lately occupied by [Thomas] Wade and wife [Amelia Herschel].
Acknowledges receipt by Harvard College Observatory of JH's 'A Synopsis of all Sir William Herschel's Micrometrical Measurements...' (1867).