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Herschel1959

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1846-[3-18 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

A collection of birthday greetings from JH, his wife, Margaret, and seven of their children, six of whom wrote their greetings in German. JH refers to Biela's Comet having thrown off a portion of itself, producing what JH calls a 'Double Comet.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3765

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7?] April 1840
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

Packing up the 7-ft. and 10-ft. reflecting telescopes for their trip to Collingwood in Hawkhurst in Kent, JH's new home.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3766

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 August 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.7; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH has given away his sweeping telescope to [Johann] Hausmann and the 5-ft. Newtonian reflector to the R.A.S. to be preserved 'long after I and all the little ones are dead and gone.' The skies have been excellent for JH to observe variable stars and to connect the northern with the southern magnitudes. Proved that Alpha Orionis is both a variable star and a periodical star.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3767

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.14; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH and family are beginning to feel at home at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3768

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.7.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of Amelia Herschel, JH's eighth child. Forwarding to CH an article describing the telescope of William Parsons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3769

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.19.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

The reductions for JH's Cape Results are progressing. JH's mapping work has been 'carried over the whole surface of the heavens' this year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3770

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is confident that by summer his sweeps will all be reduced and arranged in three catalogs for JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3771

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

Met Friedrich Bessel at the Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting; invited him to Collingwood, where he expects Bessel in a few days. Enclosed with the letter a specimen of a new photographic process called 'Chrysotype.' Marvels at traveling from Hawkhurst to Manchester round trip (420 miles) in under 23 hours!

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3772

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[4 September] 1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.13; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the erection of an obelisk at Feldhausen to commemorate the site of JH's 20-ft. reflector. Back at Cape Town, Thomas Maclear is measuring N. L. Lacaille's Arc of the Meridian. JH received the Prussian Order of Merit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.15.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH finished his catalog of stars for his Cape Results; hopes to be finished with his nebulae and double star catalogs soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.17 & Extract 3pp TxU:H/L-0588.20; Reel 1058
Summary:

Assures CH that he has preserved everything that she ever wrote to JH or that he found in William Herschel's library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3775

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0589.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of JH's 9th child, Mathilda Rose Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3776

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.3; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wishes CH a happy 96th birthday. Reports that when Margaret Herschel's brother John Stewart was in Egypt, he saw a comet. JH remarks that 'there seems to be no end of the comets.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3777

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0590.9; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH expresses pleasure in receiving and reading extracts from CH's biography. Expects to begin printing his Cape Results by Christmas. In finalizing his Cape Results, JH has found that several Southern double stars moved in the five-year span of his observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that Biela's Comet split into two comets; JH has observed it several times. 30-40 pages of JH's Cape Results have been printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1846]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0591.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH is working hard on his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3781

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0592.9; Reel 1058 & Reel 1089
Summary:

JH expects that CH has received the copy of his Cape Results that he sent recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3848

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1842]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Finished the reductions of all of the nebulae and double stars recorded at Cape Town; JH soon hopes to prepare for the publication of his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3990

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1840-8
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.8.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that there is no bust of William Herschel at the R.S.L., as JH once believed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

The Herschels bought a Christmas tree this year; JH reports that his children loved it and that 'they will be sure to keep up the custom which is a very merry one.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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