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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.
Has been making optical experiments. Hopes to see JH in the Spring. Hopes JH will be able to observe Encke's comet this year.
The time he proposes to visit them is very suitable and J. J. Lister will be there. The substance found in JH's telescope is very interesting. Hopes his mother is still well.
[SW's servant] Sally celebrates JH's birthday every year and longs to see JH again.
Thanks JH for ring of deceased Mary Herschel. Would like to see JH's children, but age confines SW.
The postal packet that he forwarded to Durham has been lost, so would be grateful if JH would send him another recommendation. Must not speak too humbly of himself. Finds Cambridge much changed.