From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1851]
Source of text:
RGO 6.10.339
Summary:
Asks for JH's assistance in inviting foreign astronomers to Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Asks for JH's assistance in inviting foreign astronomers to Visitation Day at the Royal Observatory.
About a strange mixture of coinage in Prussia.
Unable to avail himself of JH's invitation. Thanks for his interest in American astronomy. Met U. J. J. Leverrier, J. B. Biot, and others since he has been in Paris.
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“Little town of Sonora, Tuolomne County, has grown into a city.” No chance of me “settling down with a Wife” at present. Doing moderately well working in the mines (5-6 dollars a day); working at own company brings no cash, so must hire self out as ordinary miner during slow season; cannot “stand idle in California.” San Francisco had fire on 4th of May “destroying nearly the whole City;” last year Stockton also burned down, “but such is the magical influence of Gold that both Cities are now nearly the same as before.” About a thousand miners live and work in this vicinity.
Henry W. Bates conveys to ARW’s mother news of the death of her son Edward (Herbert Edward), ARW’s younger brother, who reached camp while ARW was away upriver. He had contracted yellow fever; Bates was with him, obtained physician’s care, but after a few days Herbert perished from the “black vomit,” the most lethal form of the disease. Bates reports that Herbert was well looked after to the end.