Sends children's book to JH. Believes JH, who reads German, will understand Swedish.
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.
Sends children's book to JH. Believes JH, who reads German, will understand Swedish.
Grateful to learn that [collection of William Herschel's works] is being addressed.
Found the enclosed in a bookseller's shop, found it amusing, and sends it to JH to explain the mystery.
Is sending a packet of seven papers on metrical and decimal systems.
Comments on EH's 'Magic pictures', which JH said he produced and described in a paper twenty-six years earlier; JH is however unable to explain the process chemically.
Sends information requested by JH about musical keys.
Wishes to ascertain certain facts for article on history and aspects of photography. Especially, asks where to find first record of JH and [Louis] Daguerre using hyposulfite of soda for fixing photographs.
Need to meet to discuss the question of publishing Charles Rümker's star catalogue [see JH's 1866-4-20].
Thanks JH for helping to clarify origins of Louis Daguerre's use of hyposulfite of soda for fixing photographs. Provides further information on photography, particular solar microscope photography.
The packet for Wilfred Heely has just been delivered and JM will arrange for it to be forwarded to Calcutta by the Mail steamer.
[Form letter] Invitation to company dinner at Merchant Taylor's Company on 11 June to meet Duke of Cambridge [George William Frederick Charles].
Will give him great pleasure if he can assist J. Parkhurst in any way, but regulations in Messrs. Green's ships will preclude him from their service. Met Margaret Brodie Herschel at the Stewarts a few days ago.
Sends documents requested by G. B. Airy. Hopes JH will attend visitation to hear minority view of Warren de La Rue and James Glaisher.
Sends patterns for a suit. Cannot obtain the exact pattern JH wanted.
Giving observations of a new star observed by him and some of his correspondents.
Quotes from an 1840 publication by JH to show JH's priority over a recent request for a patent for 'Magic pictures.' Recounts some recent photographic experiments by JH on the action of light on platinum.
Comments on new star reported by WH [see WH's 1866-5-18]; includes diagram of that portion of the sky.
Tells JH that JS's brother, James, is very ill and infirm, almost blind and with his memory failing, but wishing to be reconciled to those with whom he was in conflict in earlier times. Charles Babbage has visited. Would JH come or write?
Comments on Charles Rümker's observations and agrees to a meeting [see John Wrottesley's 1866-5-12].
Mostly about arranging a meeting with both JW and G. B. Airy at the Greenwich Visitation.