Hoping to meet JH again.
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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.
Hoping to meet JH again.
Family is well. News of Joseph Clement's work on the machine. Details of the new drawings made. Recent events at the R.S.L. Is giving up lodgings in town and returning to Slough. Sorry to hear of G. B. Amici's health. Regarding Amici's gifts to the R.S.L.
The Lucasian Professorship is vacant and he would be pleased if JH would consider standing for the position.
Sends a note with a letter from W. H. Wollaston to JH, dealing with glass making experiments.
News of mutual friends.
Is in difficult circumstances and would welcome any assistance from JH in obtaining employment.
News of friends and of travel.
Asking JH to express his willingness to becoming Lucasian Professor at Cambridge University.
Declining to become a candidate for the Lucasian Professorship. Has written to Charles Babbage and informed him of the vacancy.
Books are safely lodged in Charles Babbage's library. Recent travels and persons met by her son.
Sends copy of his account of the achromatic telescope because JH did not receive the original. Constructing an achromatic telescope of 5-foot focal length.
Informs GA that JH turned down the offer of the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge, and suggests that Charles Babbage be offered the job.
Introduces botanist [Nathaniel] Wallich in letter. Any kindness shown him will be appreciated. Discusses some matters of geology.
Will visit WS after attending two R.S.L. committee meetings. Asks WS's opinion of usefulness of occultation information in the Nautical Almanac.
About the election of Charles Babbage to the Lucasian professorship.
Babbage has been elected Lucasian Professor by a large majority. Is pleased by the unselfish service of JH to scientific research.
Charles Babbage has been elected to Cambridge's Lucasian professorship. Thanks JH for his efforts. Hopes Babbage will fill it effectively.
Was away from home when JH's letter came, which accounts for his belated reply. Would welcome a situation as clerk at the Bank of England should JH have any influence there.
Thanks for JH's efforts on behalf of her son (Charles Babbage) on his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
Informing him that he has been elected to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge. Offers congratulations and gives views of other friends of his success. He should return to take up his appointment.