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Herschel1954

From:
[Davies Gilbert?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1829]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.33
Summary:

Seems to be about an arrangement to travel together.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3046

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1829
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.201
Summary:

Has just received invitation. Regrets delaying JH's dinner. AQ is in the countryside. Asks to be allowed to visit toward the end of the dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2162

From:
Alexander Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.407
Summary:

Proposes to send telescope to JH to have a new lens made. Desires JH's opinion of the telescope's utility. Is hesitant to join Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14694

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1829 to 1848]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0672; Reel 1084
Summary:

Encloses notes from years of breakfast conversations with CH's brother William Herschel. Asks JH 'to take the burden of the [Zemata?] M.S. Secretaryship of [sic] my shoulders.' Recalls that JH did the same for 'Mr. Pickering some years ago.' Wishes JH and Margaret a happy new year. CH's notebook [79pp in English] including: necrology of astronomers and mathematicians; notes on plane and spherical geometry; star observations; various tables regarding measurement conversion, planetary systems, geography, and algebra.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6479

From:
Francis Legatt Chantrey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1829 or 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.247
Summary:

Suggesting suitable painters of miniatures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12639

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mary Baldwin]
Date:
[1829 to 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0059; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's health good. Expects fatiguing day tomorrow. Will meet MB for dinner. Give JH's love to Margaret. William brought good news of JH's mother.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11502

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Lunn
Date:
[1829?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.414 & 21.37
Summary:

Hears that the editors of Encyclopaedia Metropolitana have taken exception to JH's plan to write a work on Light for the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Gives his views why the works should not conflict.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4151

From:
Thomas John Hussey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1829?]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Wants to know when he can visit JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4072

From:
William Prout
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1829?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.192
Summary:

Sends abstract of a paper; wants JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10046

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.381
Summary:

Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3553

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[John Thomas Graves]
Date:
[1829-1-13 or earlie
Source of text:
TCD 4015:114
Summary:

Remains unconvinced by JG's explanatory note on imaginary logarithms, but will pass paper on to 'more capable hands' in the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3621

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Thomas Graves
Date:
[13 January [1829]
Source of text:
TCD 10047/30
Summary:

JG's paper was read to the R.S.L. on 13 Dec. [1828]. An assessment of it is now being made concerning its publishability, the report to be given to the R.S.L. Council.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3584

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[13 January 1829]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:34
Summary:

Was pleased to recently admit Capt. [Francis] Beaufort as WH's proxy in Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3966

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1829]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0574.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH asks for a large oil portrait of CH, the size of his father's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10403

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Henderson
Date:
[17 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.283 & 21.34
Summary:

Rejoices to hear TH is a candidate for the Professorship of Astronomy at Edinburgh University. His astronomical work has been of great assistance to JH, especially his detection of the reasons for the error in the Greenwich Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3618

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Samuel Stratford
Date:
[21 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.83 (C: RS:HS 21.35)
Summary:

Wishing to maintain good opinion of public, JH cautiously recommends that a certain passage be omitted from a monthly notice in the Nautical Almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5292

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.237
Summary:

Will endeavor to obtain information about the fellowships at St. John's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1233

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Thomas Graves
Date:
[24 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.65 & 66 (C: TCD 4015:112)
Summary:

The Council of the R.S.L. has asked JH to be the referee of JG's paper on logarithms, and JH disagrees with JG in a fundamental way. JH therefore asks JG to withdraw the paper and publish it elsewhere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3434

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Buckland
Date:
[25 January 1829]
Source of text:
EUL:LaII643/25
Summary:

Regrets will be unable to join WB's party at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10232

From:
John Thomas Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.119
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments. Will withdraw his paper as requested; at the same time he points out various aspects of how he arrived at the results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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