Is a collector of autographs and would be pleased to receive an example of JH's.
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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.
Is a collector of autographs and would be pleased to receive an example of JH's.
Discusses discrepencies between his observations for September and WS's photograph. It seems the new spots result from Jupiter being in opposition.
Is grateful for JH's reply. Wishes she had obtained the autographs of Sir William and Caroline Herschel.
Describes the similarities between JH's sketches and WS's photographs of sunspots. Has greater faith in own observations. Wishes WS would add Julian dates. Sends Professor [George?] Morton's photographs.
Proposes a method of diminishing the effect of a ship's rolling and pitching on a person on a cot or chair on the ship.
Asks JH's views on a system of constructing and annotating a set of celestial maps RP was preparing. Requests JH's public endorsement of those maps.
Is sending three Mexican Gulf shells, and a paper-weight made from a piece of the Wolf Rock off Penzance.
Kept indoors by the rain, so returns U. J. J. Leverrier with many thanks. Regarding Michel Chasles and the Pascal forgeries. Has lost his friend G. B. Libri. Had a visit from Robert Turner over the Pascal affair.
Pleased JH wants to defend [James] Grahame's work. Describes [Henry] Morton's work and sends additional publications. Intrigued by JH's prediction that a great discovery concerning the sun will be made soon.
Proud of WJH for introducing improvements into Indian judiciary system. Sorry to hear that WJH may have to leave Dacca.
Thanks JH for suggestions concerning a star atlas RP was preparing. Informs JH of his progress in making that atlas.
Discusses his progress preparing star maps. Stresses that such maps can suggest theories of the arrangement of stars and nebulae. Mentions various papers and maps RP was then publishing
Is delighted with JH's exposition of colors of thin plates and of measurements of a wave of light in Familiar Lectures. Asks permission to quote from it.
Council of the Society of Arts has offered prizes. Would be pleased if JH would serve on the Committee to decide the prizewinners.
Asks son John to stop at the British Museum and get the completion of a quotation JH needs; also asks John to pick up JH's R.S.P.T. copies not picked up recently.
Council of the Society of Arts has decided to form a committee to watch the interests of telegraphy. Invites JH to become a member.
Inquires about the mathematical nature of the chords of music, offering some ideas of his own.
Will learn with regret that Feldhausen has had to be sold because R. J. Jones, the owner, was in debt. Outlines the alterations to the house and to the neighborhood now that the railroad has appeared. Has a tribe of grandchildren now.
No such fast has been proclaimed. Sends two extracts from the Times.
Regrets that JH has not received annual volume of astronomical observations for 1865, sent months ago. Is sending another.