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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.
Regarding his brother-in-law's sale of property. Sorry he was unable to meet him at Dover recently. Mother in good health.
Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.
Sends deeds already signed by J. J. Guest. JH should sign and return them. [Annotation by unknown hand: Mrs. Hollier's marriage and settlement.]
Is sending him some new additions for the memoir by L. F. Menabrea. Mother keeps well.
Has had visitors which accounts for the delay in answering letter. Thanks for memoir additions. Is sending paper dealing with use of CB's work. Somervilles are still in Rome. Is glad to hear good news of his mother.
Sending him papers on his machine. Would like to see him when in town to discuss various matters. His youngest son has arrived in Calcutta.
Requests advice on the setting up of a sick benefit society. Remarks on some of CB's queries.
Referring him to someone who can advise him on the setting up of a sick benefit society. Regarding CB's automan.