Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Poole
Date:
19 January 1839
Source of text:
K.W. Vincentz
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Date:
[19 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.5.11
Summary:
Compares magnitudes for some specific stars and then comments more generally on that question; JH believes he will no longer be able to observe in winter in England as he is too severely afflicted by rheumatism.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20–1 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 161
Summary:
Preparations for the wedding, various callers, and other bits of news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.149
Summary:
Regrets that he cannot change the mind of the council of the R.A.S. over its nomination of JH as president.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.75 (C: RGO 6.368.618)
Summary:
Any news of Field Measuring bars—alteration in size of Observatory at Cape Town? Observations on use of magnetic needle. Has JH found a suitable country house yet?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 12
Summary:
Comments on recent visit to Maer. Explains that his notion of happiness as quietness and solitude derives from Beagle experience. Hopes Emma will humanise him. Comments on marriage planned for Tuesday.
Describes recent visit by Lyell and his wife. Talked geology for half an hour "with poor Mrs Lyell sitting by". "I want practice in ill-treating the female sex."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
late January 1839
Source of text:
FACLM H MS c1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
E. Willes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.259
Summary:
EW and wife plan trip to Eton soon to see sons. Hope to visit Herschels in Slough then. Despairs of Africa venture. Received details from JH's agent at the Cape of Good Hope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Charles Prince
Date:
21 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[22 January 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0426.1; Reel 1055
Summary:
Willing to write to [secretary of state for War and the Colonies, Charles Grant] Lord Glenelg on behalf of JS's application. JH searching for new residence.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.362
Summary:
Has mentioned to Dr. T. R. Robinson their hopes of supplying the Cape Observatory with an equatorial telescope and theodolite. Encloses Robinson's comments. George Dollond would take two years to mount such a telescope. Curious paper in the Comptes rendus.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Miss Hume
Date:
23 January 1839
Source of text:
Anon (1841a), 112-3
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 162
Summary:
Responds warmly to his very nice letter. CD need have no fear that she will not be as happy as he.
Again expresses uneasiness that their opinions on religion do not agree on all points. Hopes they will sympathise in their feelings on the subject.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Willes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.258
Summary:
Recalls hospitality at Slough during EW's Eton days. Sets date to visit JH.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John] Lindley
Date:
[24 January 1839]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Mss.Acc. 67
Summary:
Sends JL various roots from the Cape, including Satyriums and Disa. Describes each type in detail.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fox Talbot
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.277
Summary:
Will give a paper on fixing the image formed by the camera obscura to R.S.L. and wants to review it with JH first.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Evans Blackwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1839
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/4/121)
Summary:
A newly-elected Fellow returns the obligation to be signed upon entering the Geological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 13
Summary:
He has the wedding ring. Agrees to coming straight home after the wedding, if that is what she prefers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[27 January 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0427; Reel 1055
Summary:
Sends letter of recommendation for JS and returns draft of JS's letter to [Charles Grant] Lord Glenelg, with recommended changes. Promise from Glenelg's father to JS's father [A. Stewart] is grounds for JS's application.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[27 January 1839]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/10
Summary:
[Responding to WT's 1839-1-25], JH reports that he cannot come to London to see WT's 'curious process of fixing the image formed by a Camera obscura.' Invites WT to come to Slough.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project