Will be pleased to act as sponsor to JH's child. Could not stay as an inmate but will visit them from Windsor from Friday till Tuesday.
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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.
Will be pleased to act as sponsor to JH's child. Could not stay as an inmate but will visit them from Windsor from Friday till Tuesday.
Has been laid up with a cold and unable to answer his letter. Congratulations on the new baby. Hopes mother and child are doing well. Will wait for confirmation of his son's marriage before sending the news to the papers.
Has had a letter from Henry Foster regarding his pendulum experiments at Ascension.
Requests advice in determining optimal time for visit to England. Thanks for invitation to Slough. Mentions completion of his sixth volume of observations, the introduction of which could prove interesting to JH. Fascinated by JH's observation of a sixth star in the trapezoid of Orion.
Sending two volumes of her Fishes and explaining the reason for the delay.
Takes a moment to write. Sends various brochures and observations on magnetic intensity in Germany. Asks JH to give a copy of it to [Charles] Babbage and [Henry] Kater. Congratulates JH on being named correspondent to the Institute of France. Lost his father-in-law. Has asked [James] South to press construction of AQ's instruments, but no luck. Requests JH visit Edward Troughton and the instruments.
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.
Sending back part of manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens] for criticism. Hopes Mrs. Herschel and baby are well.
Has received the R.S.P.T. Also comments on several chemical matters, including isomorphism and crystallization.
Announces second volume of translation of JH's Light is out in Paris. Is sending a copy. Work progresses slowly. Problems because of revolution. AQ's collaborator [P. F.] Verhulst is very ill. Will leave for Italy soon. Discusses his previous trip to Germany. Saw [William] Whewell. Has received Astronomical Society's memoirs.
Wants JH's views on a 20-foot reflector. Inviting him to Cambridge. With this letter he encloses Volume 2 of the Cambridge Observatory's Observations and Lectures in Optics.
Sending a paper by J. J. Lister on the microscope and some crystals of Borate of Soda. Carlo Gemmellaro has been examining temperature of air in the subterranean passage near Nicolosi. Hopes JH will visit Tottenham; would give him great pleasure to see him.
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.
Returns the Edinburgh Review. Has written to the Morning Chronicle regarding G. B. Rodney's (1st Baron Rodney) naval maneuver. Sends three pamphlets.
Does he want a scale ordered form George Dollond for Wilhelm Struve? Will not be in London when Struve arrives. Has written a paper on the Standards for the R.S.L. and will send JH a copy when printed. Comments on the comparison of Standards.
His brother-in-law, Moses Montefiore, desires to become a member of the Athenaeum and he would be grateful for JH's assistance in this matter.
Sending a box to JH, containing chiefly books.
Will arrive in England in mid-August. Mentions convention of German scientists on 18 September and invites JH.
Has difficulty observing sun spots. Thomas Maclear sends WS information for next year's occultation of Alpha Tauri. Completes rotating roof for personal observatory.
Regarding authors for the Bridgewater Treatises. Would he write on astronomy? Would like his opinion on a paper by John Herapath on optics.