Congratulates JH on his progress in mathematics. Discusses forces of attraction and his employment at the shipping company.
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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.
Congratulates JH on his progress in mathematics. Discusses forces of attraction and his employment at the shipping company.
Asks JH if he would read and criticize a manuscript of JG's.
Comments on JH's romance. Hints at JW's own. Notes college fervor for religious proselytizing in foreign lands. Asks about 'Catholic question.' Quotes censored epigram written on royal tombs. Charles Babbage very ill.
Where to find further information on functional equations. Gives further equations for JH's comments. Regarding the proposed abridgement of J. B. Delambre's work on astronomy.
Note to accompany JG's manuscript [see JG's 1813-6-21].
Thanks for the criticism [see JG's 1813-6-21]; is considering publication.
Has had manuscript [see JG's 1813-7-14] privately printed with the title Crispin, only six copies and not for sale.
Encourages JH to get rid of his hatred of infants.
Will be visiting London shortly and hopes to purchase some experimental equipment to carry out experiments with heat.
Encourages JH's decision to become a barrister; comments on the joys of marriage.
Please consider William Herschel's opinions on JH's career decision. MPH favors church, but will accept whatever makes JH happy. Will send money soon for [JH's tutor] T. W. Hornbuckle.
Responds to JH's criticism of churchmen. Criticizes law and defends church as careers. Explains why WH never discussed religious opinions with JH.
Assures JH that exchange of letters with William Herschel did not produce alienation. Encourages both to meet for discussion. JH's cousin [Mary Baldwin] anxiously awaits reply from JH.
Apologies for any bitterness caused by differences of opinions. Willing to listen to JH's reason for preferring law over church as career, but must postpone arguments until later. [Typewritten copy includes annotation by unknown hand that JH's letters were not preserved in this 'only serious conflict of wills between the father & son.']
About the opportunities in law.
Encourages JH to come to visit; more about the study of law.
Regarding the proposed method of raising funds to pay for printing of the memoir. Justifies his equation queried by JH. Would he purchase certain chemicals for him.
Results of JW's exams. JH's advice in science was too modern to help. Reports local scandals among examiners. Not speaking to James Grahame. Going to 'Babylon' on Tuesday.
Congratulates JH on the formation of the [Analytical] Society, which will let Britain 'take the lead' in mathematics. Discusses analysis of a radical.
Thanks for essays JH sent; John Playfair was impressed by them. JG is writing material in favor of a Glasgow/Edinburgh canal.