Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.
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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.
Hopes to meet JH on 29 March.
Will be pleased to visit them before they move from Tunbridge Wells. Comments on the Arabic names of stars.
About arrangements to visit JH at Collingwood.
Has just confirmed the Hawkhurst apportionment; comments on this. Encloses a copy of the notice.
Has only just received JH's parcel dispatched some six months ago, due to lack of transport during the winter months. JH's poem on the Old Telescope has been in great demand. Pass the enclosed to Miss Hamilton. Would like an autograph of JH for her album.
Received JH's constellation reform paper. Reports on triangulation at Zwartland and observations of possible variable stars. Obelisk at Feldhausen erected; relates controversies over the site.
Is applying for vacant professorial chair in astronomy. Wants testimonial from JH in his support. Attached note of JH is negative in this regard.
Gives the parallaxes of a few southern stars obtained from his own mural circle. Has sent his memoir on Alpha Centauri to the R.A.S.
Would like to know the composition of the fluid in JH's actinometers.
Observations on double stars.
Sends all his observations of Alpha Virginis. Has not done much to this recently. Regarding JH's observations of the fifth and sixth stars in Trapizio. Has informed James Challis of William Lassell's observations.
Sends JH samples of his calotypes. Off to Germany on a photographic expedition.
Returns photographs of spectrum, with observations on the results.
Urged by G. B. Airy, ES withdraws earlier letter to JH and encloses letter with ES's opinions regarding continuance of [magnetic and meteorological] observations.
Sends several samples of ferrocyanide JH had requested.
Returning photographs, with observations. Regarding the transport of loads in hilly country. Remarks on the transcription and pronunciation of foreign languages.
Still pursuing vacant professorial chair in astronomy. Wants JH's testimonial. Sends his qualifications and description of recent activities in astronomy.
Sending the results of his calculations of the parallaxes of the southern stars. Has recommended these stars to Thomas Maclear to observe.
Thanks JH for interest taken in periodic phenomena. Discusses train information and preferred hotel accommodations for JH's visit.
Has been trying to make other metallo-cyanides at JH's request, but without success.