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From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.21; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses a possible measurement error in N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Richard Sheepshanks is certain that WS has the proofs of JH's preface to Lacaille's book, but an annoyed WS contends that they are with JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.22; Reel 1093
Summary:

Received G. B. Airy's proof of JH's preface of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere from JH, but still awaits his, JH's, and Richard Sheepshanks's copies. Completing the index and the preface to J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.23; Reel 1093
Summary:

Elated to learn from JH that JH has the remaining proofs of JH's preface to N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere, as WS had believed; he also is thrilled that Richard Sheepshanks, who asserted that WS held the proofs, will now have to eat his words!

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.24; Reel 1093
Summary:

Has supplied Richard Sheepshanks with revisions of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française.... Because Sheepshanks previously accused WS of misplacing the proofs of JH's preface to N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere (which later were found to be where WS had asserted), WS quips that he 'returned every scrap of paper' to Sheepshanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.25; Reel 1093
Summary:

Busily preparing sections of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere for the printer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.26; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses the layout of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française....

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.27; Reel 1093
Summary:

Asks JH to compare the stars in Thomas Henderson's reductions to those in N. L. Lacaille's Coelum australe stelliferum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.28; Reel 1093
Summary:

Promises to send to JH copies of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française..., and of N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere by week's end. WS has tried to connect Francis Baily with JL's Catalogue in a 'formal' manner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.29; Reel 1093
Summary:

Exultant that J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere will be published tomorrow. Asks whether it would be appropriate for the B.A.A.S. to present copies of these two catalogs to J. C. Adams and to U. J. J. Leverrier; discusses other people who deserve copies. In printing and publishing the catalogs, they have spent all of the grant money.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.30; Reel 1093
Summary:

Sends the revised financial report that records the final printing and publication costs of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.31; Reel 1093
Summary:

Now has in hand published copies of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.55; Reel 9
Summary:

Please send latitude and longitude of Hawkhurst. Family benefited by trip to Southampton. Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 October 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.102
Summary:

Communicates with others JH's choice of name for new planet [Iris]. Sends position of Hawkhurst Church tower obtained from map department. Describes rainy-day eclipse and reactions to it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.32; Reel 1093
Summary:

Advises that the catalogs [J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere] not be bound for another five or six months because some proof-sheets are still quite wet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.33; Reel 1093
Summary:

Discusses persons who deserve copies of J. J. L. Lalande's Catalogue of Those Stars in the Histoire céleste française... and N. L. Lacaille's Catalogue of 9766 Stars in the Southern Hemisphere (?).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project