Thanks JH for his work on behalf of HP's sister, Mrs. Mary Maclear [wife of Thomas Maclear] in obtaining a government pension for her.
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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.
Thanks JH for his work on behalf of HP's sister, Mrs. Mary Maclear [wife of Thomas Maclear] in obtaining a government pension for her.
Sends letter from [Alexander] von Humboldt and HS's new book on the geography of the Alps. Would like to visit JH at Collingwood.
C. E. Trevelyan asks JH to describe stock that JH plans to post as security bond for office of Master of Mint. Deposit stock in names of Treasury officials.
Received documents of 1837 evidence from JH. Forwarded letter to JH's former address, 17 Montague Square, before learning of JH's new address [32 Harley St.].
Thanks for signing certificate for [C. M.] Elliott. Sends extracts from George Buist's history of heat storms in India, with evidence of great masses of ice dropped by these storms.
Returned from Ireland. Invites JH to call on RS.
Bishop of Chester [John Graham] wishes to convene 10 Dec. meeting of Cambridge University Commissioners. Will JH attend?
Compliments JH's list of questions [for Cambridge University Commission to discuss]. Issues that GP wants to discuss.
Offers congratulations on JH's new position [Master of Mint]. Recalls 'our water-pipe operations at Cape Town fifteen years ago' [1835]. Speculates on water wave theory. Pity for 'poor Charles Bell.'
Queen will receive University address next Tuesday. Bishop of Chester [John Graham] wishes to convene meeting of Cambridge University Commissioners on 11 Dec.
Regrets JH's not stopping at the Mint today. HH will not be in tomorrow.
Asks JH for suggested improvements in R. L. Sheil's plan for reforming Mint.
Changes to questions prepared by GP and JH for tutors [at Cambridge University].
Mistakenly opened enclosed letter, addressed to JH.
Forwarded letter as JH requested.
Requests permission to publish JH's and AW's 1843-1844 correspondence in 'Journal of Industry.'
Congratulates JH on his important new position [Mint]; wants to start seriously to prepare for July 1851 solar eclipse [see JH's 1850-8-18 or later].
Needs to know date of JH's [letters] patent, to compute salary for RS's final pay period as Master of Mint.
Acknowledges the receipt of JH's suggestions [see JH's 1850-12-15]; urges JH to consider going to Norway or the Baltic to see the eclipse.
Is confident the letter [see JH's 1850-12-15], which is supposedly from François Arago, is a forgery.