Forwards report by Mint Board evaluating claims from company of Moneyers to compensation for equipment taken over by Mint during reform. Mr. Richards has evaluated Moneyers' equipment, and JH submits recommended compensation for various articles.
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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.
Forwards report by Mint Board evaluating claims from company of Moneyers to compensation for equipment taken over by Mint during reform. Mr. Richards has evaluated Moneyers' equipment, and JH submits recommended compensation for various articles.
Asked Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] to answer JH's letter regarding two apprentices. Thanks for gift of third coin struck under new Mint system. Congratulates JH and H. D. Harness for successful reform.
Forwards decisive response by Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] to letter from [W. T.] Brande. CT will not get involved.
Forwards evaluation of melting and refining equipment taken over from G. F. G. Mathison. Portions of refinery were evaluated by Mr. Abud, named by Woods and Forests commissioners. Submits recommended compensation for various articles.
Read enclosed memoranda, and inform CT whether JH was aware of these before JH made recommendations regarding compensation for Moneyers' tools.
Proposes budget for repair of moneyers' machinery.
JH's explanation of discrepancy in allowance for repairs of [Moneyers'] machinery is satisfactory. Please return memoranda.
Forwards new claim by Henry Bingley for compensation for work performed by Bingley's son as probationary assayer. JH suggests £300. Believes that Bingley's further claim for reimbursement for coachhouse and stables, built at Mint residence by Bingley, was covered by Treasury's earlier compensation to Bingley.
Treasury commissioners approve compensation claims for equipment belonging to company of Moneyers and to G. F. G. Mathison.
Treasury commissioners approve payment of £300 to son of Henry Bingley for work performed as probationary assayer.
Forwards, with JH's approval, G. F. G. Mathison's claim for compensation due to termination of office of Melter and Refiner at Mint.
Lists wages for assistant workers in Mint.
Will respond tomorrow to JH's important note.
Before Treasury commissioners approve pay scale for Mint workmen proposed by JH, they want to know pay scale previously used by Moneyers. If JH or H. D. Harness can call on Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] today, matter can be settled immediately.
Proposal to transfer books and papers of Mint Commission from Treasury Chambers to Mint vaults.
Concurs with JH's proposal for reorganizing Engraving department. Will inform Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood].
Prepare general report of Mint reforms for submission to Parliament.
Death of William Wyon offers opportunity to reorganize engraving department.
Discontinuance of Gas department of Mint. Superintendent, Mr. [Lorde?], may claim compensation. Historic item discovered during sale of Henry Bingley's tools and machinery.
JH and H. D. Harness may call on CT at Treasury whenever convenient.