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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.
Please arrange for JH to join DW, Dr. [Thomas?] Chalmers, and possibly Captain Carnigh for dinner. Chalmers wanted to visit William Herschel in Windsor but cannot, and would at least like to meet JH before going to meet [William?] Wilberforce.
Regarding a possible error by JH in one of his equations [see CB's 1816-10-10]. Proposes a plan for a new work on analysis.
Regrets his blunder. Send him Wilson Lowry's address and he will write. His own recent experiments with platinum.
Much philosophizing about life, work, and happiness.
Queries and news about friends at Cambridge. How is analytical movement proceeding and translation of [S. F.] Lacroix's treatise being received? Is writing a new algebra.
Is glad JH is coming to town. Another son born. They must revive the Analytical. Explains a problem in functional analysis.
Will be coming to town shortly and hopes to stay with CB if possible. They must get another volume of the transactions of the Analytical Society out.