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Herschel6896

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.193
Summary:

Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8385

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.268
Summary:

Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6897

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.178
Summary:

Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6898

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.179
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6899

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.180
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6900

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.181
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6901

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.182
Summary:

Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6902

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.194
Summary:

Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4744

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.134 (C: RGO 6.92.120)
Summary:

Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9662

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.12
Summary:

Sending a notice, which JH may be pleased to see, though he suspects the subject did not fall into able hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
JHS 3.23
Summary:

Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9594

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.335
Summary:

Sends a small College album of poems and snaps. Wishes JH would visit him at Bruges as they have ample room to entertain him. Hopes to publish meteorological observations kept by his grandfather, father, and himself. Comments on Saturday moons and wet and windy weather. Is he working on changes in the apparent magnitude of stars?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13018

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[15 March 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0431; Reel 1055
Summary:

Congratulations on JS's new position at Bank. Received JS's account from Malta of comet. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Eneas Mackintosh promised to procure job as 'writer' in India for Willy. News from India and Europe. Teaching Latin to Alexander and three oldest daughters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8305

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[M. Bosse?]
Date:
[17 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.111
Summary:

Reacts strongly to substantial errors in unauthorized biography of JH. Suggests it be burned. [JH annotation: 'Not sent. Answered none of their letters and refused to take in 2 or 3. A regular piece of French insolence.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2657

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[17 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.348 (C: RS:HS 22.148)
Summary:

Sending papers on actinochemistry (photography). Discusses [James] Forbes's viscosity theory, nebulae of Southern Hemisphere, great refractor at Collegio Romano, and Lord Rosse's telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 March 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.92.125 (C: RGO 6.92.124 inc)
Summary:

Has not heard from Thomas Maclear [see GA's 1844-3-12]; has the Cape equatorial object glass been dealt with?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel414

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 March 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.55
Summary:

Comments on the large number of stars identified in one square degree of sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7354

From:
Thomas Lawrence
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1844]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 3/4.7; Reel 7
Summary:

Please reseal letter and send to TL, who will investigate JH's complaint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4745

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.135
Summary:

Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10756

From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.108
Summary:

Outlines his domestic history. If JH knows of a suitable position vacant that may suit RH he would be pleased to hear of it. Cannot understand JH's lack of success with the photographic process RH uses. His own book is printed and is waiting for an engraving. Will send him a copy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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