Is he thinking of letting Francis Baily's house at Tavistock Place as he knows someone who is desirous of renting it. Was able to walk two miles at a quick pace yesterday. Rest of his family are at the seaside.
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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.
Is he thinking of letting Francis Baily's house at Tavistock Place as he knows someone who is desirous of renting it. Was able to walk two miles at a quick pace yesterday. Rest of his family are at the seaside.
Thanks for valuable and interesting letter; has sent copies to the Glossop Record and Manchester Examiner and will send copies of the papers should the letter be printed. Will be glad to know the results of his valuable observations.
Knew he would get a speedy answer. Quick, the Bristol bookseller, has sent him an edition of Francis Walkingame's Arithmetic. Thinks JH is right to sell Francis Baily's house. G. B. Libri may wish to buy. His puns are unavoidable. Hopes JH will have his house valued.
JH's letter has appeared in the Glossop Herald and Manchester Examiner. Has ordered copies and will send some to JH. Has sent a copy to Sir Henry James.
Sent packet to JH last week containing publications listed in ES's bibliography of recent magnetic surveys.
Thanks JH for reading his preface to The Genesis of the Earth and Man, and expresses the author's gratitude that JH believes the book will be interesting.
Unable to give in a letter the practical geometrical results he has worked out from the laws of the king's chamber of the Great Pyramid. It would grace a history of Egyptian astronomy.
Thanks for the newspaper cutting repudiating his wisdom on weather matters. Has had erroneous charges laid at his own door. What arms has he taken?
Thanks for his letter, but regrets he should have misconstrued the reason for his suggestions. Has no commercial motives.
Would like the opportunity of publishing a work for him.
Sending an account of an earth shock at Wrotham on 3 Sept. and inquiring if it was noticed at Hawkhurst.
Regarding the missing publications of the Academy that JH has not received. Further regarding polarization in molecules.
Has recently read in the papers JH's correspondence concerning the weather. Would like an article on this subject from JH for the Quarterly Review. Comments on the influence of the moon on the weather.
According to JH's instructions, portrait of late Robert Stephenson will be sent to 37 Tavistock Place. Thanks for JH's approval of paper on color blindness by CM's friend Mr. Pole. Would Pole be eligible for R.S.L. membership?
Thanks for his letter. Any astronomical observations can be recorded on a plane or spherical surface. 108 equal cubes will exactly fill the coffer in the king's chamber of the Great Pyramid.
Is grateful for his suggestions. Would he have leisure to edit a new edition of the letters?
Hopes that JH will attend the luncheon when J. R. Townshend (3rd Viscount Sydney) inspects the 37th Kent R.V. battalion.
Thanks JH for scientific papers. Is writing about relations between inorganic matter, physical and vital forces, and microscopic plants. Praises [Giuseppe] Garibaldi and his performance.
Sending a moral song. Sent one to W. H. Smyth.
As editor for Griffin & Co., JW encloses that portion of book on 'Cont[emporary] Biography' that relates to JH. Asks JH for alterations.