Comments on his observations made that year in the Alps. Hopes to return again with more instruments.
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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.
Comments on his observations made that year in the Alps. Hopes to return again with more instruments.
Asks for support in gaining a pension from the army.
Note to say the matter of Mr. Lax's examination is not yet organized.
Questions of publishing, including JH's considering the publication of William Herschel's writings.
About the possibility of attending a meeting.
Encouragement to JH for republication of some earlier works, together with news of GP's health.
Arrangements about GP visiting JH.
GP's poor health prevents him from visiting JH as had intended.
Arrangements about meeting JH in London.
Has been so busy visiting various people and relatives that he has had no time to answer JH's letter. Leaves early in September for Rome and Naples and will be unable to visit Collingwood.
Would like to bring one of her children when they visit him [at Christmas?].
Thanking him for the gift of china.
Thanking him for gift.
Is ill, but encloses revised copy of letter on rotation, from which HS hopes he has removed all possibly offensive statements.
Sends photographs from study of trees. Has news from Mr. Stewart. Is attempting to complete his works on gases and vapors. Also working on treatise on physics. Wishes to see his work also published in English.
Is grateful for his kind gift of the book. Hopes he will be able to visit them.
Accepts her kind invitation for today with pleasure. Regarding the number of vowel sounds in the English and French languages.
Is obliged for her note. Further regarding the distribution of custom to local tradesmen.
Regarding the rates for JH's house.
Has read the lecture with great delight and returns it as requested; would like to borrow it again at some future date to show it to other people.