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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.
Outlining his scheme for election of candidates to a post [appears to be an astronomer for an observatory].
Has received TH's alterations for TH's publication. Astronomical Society's council is offering TH some volumes of Greenwich observations.
Relates the events of his journey to London.
Sending to the R.S.L. Memoires of the Académie for 1823.
Invites JH to Royal Academy of Science's museum.
Is in financial difficulties and would appreciate £80.
Comments on the observations in two of JG's papers.
Expressing the thanks of the Académie for the Discourse pronounced on the award of the medals at the Astronomical Society Apr. 1827.
Has sent Mr. Talbot's Microscopy. Has received a letter from Leopoldo Nobili. Observations on Nobili's experiments on the electrification of mercury.
Invitation from Duchess of Clarence [Adelaide] calls JH to London. Appointments with [Davies] Gilbert and R. H. Inglis on Monday. Will reschedule Board of Longitude meeting. Sent containers for Mr. Atherton. Paid MPH's bills. [Agnes] Kater is recovering. News of Beckwiths and James Grahame.
Is grateful for his letter and also the address to the Astronomical Society. Comments on his own paper on satellites.
Announcing his decision of resigning from the Secretaryship of the R.S.L.
Informs DG that JH is resigning as secretary of R.S.L. [at the anniversary date?] and expresses great regret that some regard the position of secretary not as an elected position, but in the patronage of the President.
Informs FB that it is JH's intention to resign as secretary of the R.S.L. at the next anniversary meeting.
Informs HK that JH intends to resign as secretary of the R.S.L.
Regrets JH's retirement as secretary to R.S.L. Names possible successors.
FB pleased by JH's note yesterday announcing JH's resignation [as secretary of] R.S.L. Hopes JH will accept 'another office' in R.S.L. at future date.
Regrets JH's resignation as secretary of R.S.L.
JH's resignation as R.S.L. secretary. Reports finding papers. Will confirm that Greenwich observations reached Thomas Henderson. Thermometers and [John] Dalton's Elements arrived safely. Thanks for invitation to visit Slough.
Regrets JH's resignation of R.S.L. secretaryship.