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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.
Difficulties arising from reform at Mint. Hopes new equality of rank for junior clerks will satisfy RF and [F. R.] Brande.
Thanks for EE's 'Orations and Speeches.' Recalls first meeting EE at Cambridge. Praises Harvard Observatory and W. C. Bond's discovery of an interior Saturnian ring. Notes that William R. Dawes had independently discovered this ring. Encourages EE to attend the Great Exhibition.
Suggests change in procedure for 'applicants' to Royal Mint.
Received GM's letter of 20 Mar., stating GM's position for official record. Regrets that GM interpreted conversations with JH and H. D. Harness in manner that led to so many misunderstandings. Asks for early reply from GM regarding office of Melter.
Treasury commissioners insist on dealing with Moneyers as individuals, not as corporation. Returns RR's memorial and suggests that RR delete reference to Company of Moneyers.
Advises RR to keep individual claim for compensation ready, but wait to see if Treasury accepts joint claim by Company of Moneyers.
Changes offer that JH made to HB in note to H. D. Harness.
Writing in support of an application for a pension for John Hind.
JH cannot give definite date for HB's termination in Assay Office. This will be delayed for as long as gold is being imported for coinage.
Encourages GA to write a letter in support of time off for John Hind.
Note to accompany return of printed text [see GA's 1851-3-31], with one annotation enclosed.
Responds, clearing up the misunderstood instruction [see GA's 1851-4-3].
Forwards letter from Edward Enfield, who feels that Enfield's compensation as terminated Moneyer should not be diminished for declining offer of position in new Mint establishment.
Received EE's letters [see EE's 1851-4-4] and will forward these to Henry Rich.
Sends proposals for HR's approval. Encloses excerpt from Edward Enfield's letter concerning salary raise.
If RR still wishes, RR may now submit individual claim for compensation to JH and Henry Rich for consideration.
[Extract] Appeals [to R.S.L.] for financial support to J. R. Hind, whose health is failing. Encloses letter and sketch from Hind, certificate for Dr. Hall, and letter from Richard Sheepshanks.
Unhappy with matters at the Mint; JH talks about the activities of the children, and about his involvement with the Great Exhibition. [Most of the letter written on 1851-4-7.]
Landed estates held in common by Company of Moneyers may affect their claims to compensation.
John Hind has been granted time off with pay to recover his health [see JH's 1851-4-2].