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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 giving advice about AH's application for a position at the University of Glasgow, and indicating what kind of help JH can provide.
Asks what AD knows about the Andersonian Institution in Glasgow, which JH's son Alexander is considering as a place of employment. JH then deals with a problem in probability theory, and concludes the letter with a riddle.
Comments on JH's work on nebulae and offers some of his own nebula observations. HA would be greatly honored if JH would include HA's observations in the catalog JH is preparing.
Thanks for acknowledging his mathematical memoir. Intended his paper on polyhedra for the French prize, but was annoyed they would not recognize his work, so submitted it to the R.S.L. instead. Is sending a paper to William Cavendish (7th Duke of Devonshire), who is a mathematician.
Asks for JH's help in defending current patent laws in Parliament.
Has received a letter from the Misses Gretton and in consequence has opened an account on their behalf.
States that the current patent laws are unjust and would prefer to see them repealed rather than maintained.
About the solution of algebraic equations and JH's previous work on this topic.
Recalls JH having written that an 'annulus of stars might be in equilibrium.' Asks where this claim appears in JH's writings.
Is grateful to JH for calling attention to his paper on analysis. Has forwarded his letter to George Boole. Hopes he can quote it in his paper for the Manchester Philosophical Society. Sends a copy of his memoir from the R.S.P.T.
Thanks for help [see HS's 1862-2-24]; requests JH's further assistance in publishing a complete edition of writings of Augustin Fresnel.
Encloses slips to show how he has incorporated the Julian dates. Agrees with the American lunar tables. The nebula in Taurus is invisible to William Lassell.
Maggie Maclear returned to Cape Town after attempting to run away to England. Herschel family instrumental in her safe return.
Regarding the report of the polyedra prize question of the French Academy.
Does JH want £20 sent directly or deposited in JH's account?
R.S.L. Council voted £20 for cost of reducing JH's catalogue of nebulae.
Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.
Further regarding the polyedra prize of the French Academy.
Ready to send nebula data to GA for reduction; question of dates need decisions [see GA's 1862-1-30].
Send quickly JH's manuscript of 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' It will provide work for computer whom GA was about to lay off. Prefers reducing JH's data to 1860's. GA's improvement on F. W. Bessel's reduction formula.