From:
J. Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.8a
Summary:
Changes the date of an invitation to JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Madame Biot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1839
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.66
Summary:
Offering her services while JH is in Paris.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Edward Sabine]
Date:
[1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0632; Reel 1089
Summary:
Submits payment to J. D. Roberton for 'Association' bills. Glad that ES approves of JH's draft article on terrestrial magnetism for Quarterly Review. Fears R.S.L. was premature in proposing experimental institutions; public was not prepared for such large expenditures for science. Prefers ES's suggestion of temporary magnetical and meteorological observatory. Strong disagreement from [C. J.] Riddell in America.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John William Lubbock?]
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.353
Summary:
Advice on obtaining magnetical and meteorological apparatus for Van Diemen's Land observatory. Need to clear up finances.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Admiralty
Date:
[1839 or 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.14
Summary:
Regarding Thomas Maclear's Cape Meridian.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.11.12
Summary:
Too ill to attend a demonstration by CW of one of CW's instruments [?].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[1839].
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.333
Summary:
Discusses Harvard University offer to make magnetic measurements. Requests ES to read Admiralty extracts. Asks questions regarding JH's upcoming review [in Quarterly Review] of several works on terrestrial magnetism.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1839?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.283
Summary:
Observations of [Kensa?] received. The George Everest-Thomas Jervis affair.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.178
Summary:
Has heard from G. B. Airy that T. F. Colby has written to Ireland for the compensation bars. An additional assistant has been designated but no appointment made yet. Received a letter from their good friend but does not feel justified in bringing it to the notice of a minister. Admiralty has borrowed Fuller's theodolite (from R.A.S.) and the mural circle should soon arrive. Gives Michael Faraday's analysis of the meteorolite.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1839
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0642; Reel 1089
Summary:
Will send two photometers and three-year supply of paper to [?]. One goes to J. C. Ross and one to F. Eardley Wilmot at Cape of Good Hope. Instructions for using photometers. Hopes [?] Robinson forwarded actinometers to Woolwich as JH directed. These should be checked at St. Helena. Instruction for using actinometers. Sent report to Humphrey Lloyd at B.A.A.S. Returns [?]'s Daguerre newspaper containing 'impudent notice about M. Pambour and his great Wheels.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1839
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/2.3, 2.9, 2.10, and 2.13 (all verso); Reel 7
Summary:
JH's experiments to find compounds suitable for photography. Accidental discovery of effect of 'nitrate of Silver.' Note of 22 Jan. from Francis Beaufort alerted JH to L. J. M. Daguerre's secret processes and W. H. F. Talbot's experiments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 5/4.6 verso; Reel 8
Summary:
Fourth observatory, at Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], will be conducted by J. H. Kay, to be landed from one of vessels [Terror and Erebus] bound for Antarctica. This vessel will also carry observers and instruments for stations at St. Helena and Cape.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Tayleur
To:
Faraday
Date:
1839 or after
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 [–3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 10
Summary:
His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Peter Gassiot
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 January 1839
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 158
Summary:
Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.
Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:
Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.292
Summary:
Will bring CB's 'Engine' to Slough tomorrow, together with Dionysius Lardner's apparatus, which CB has 'taught to write.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[6–7 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 11
Summary:
Has been with the Lyells doing geology.
Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].
Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1839]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Recounts a letter from William Rowan Hamilton, President of the Royal Irish Academy, commending CH on her service to astronomy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project