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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.
Charles Lemon has communicated to him the result of an application made by JH to Prince Albert on behalf of one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful for his assistance.
Sends a copy of G. R. Anson's letter to Charles Lemon regarding a scholarship for one of RH's children. Is deeply grateful to JH for his nomination and support.
Encloses a copy of a letter received from Prince Albert's secretary; has sent the original to Robert Hunt. Encloses a note received from Hunt this morning.
Sends this letter through his son Otto Struve. Informs JH of his upcoming visit to England and desires to renew the acquaintance at Collingwood.
Is grateful for the interest JH takes in their late friend's orphan daughter. Gives summary of her financial position. A pension would be welcome. Outlines the arrangements for the sale of Thomas Henderson's books. Would JH mark the ones he thinks should be purchased for the Observatory.
Forwards a copy of the rules and regulations of the benefit society, with much thanks.
Happy that his Cape Results are nearly finished. After reviewing his work, JH concluded that the amount of error per observation is no more than 30 or 35 seconds.
Thanks for book. Has written three books on the foundation of algebra. Comments on these.
Discusses the meeting of the B.A.A.S. and William Whewell's view of the proceeding. Will assume the chair and expects support from AS, George Peacock, and probably Whewell.
Has been converted to some of WW's philosophical views. Accepts WW's invitation to stay at Trinity Lodge during the 1845 B.A.A.S. meeting in Cambridge. W. R. Dawes has taken a house in Kent.
Discusses prior meeting of B.A.A.S. to determine if [Cambridge] University would receive it. Says meeting went well. Asks if JH will agree to chair the B.A.A.S. meeting.
Sending some specimens of photographs by a new process that he thinks is unrivalled for simplicity and sensibility. Comments on his method. Has sent an account of another curious process to the P.M. His little boy will go to Christ's Hospital in July or September.
Would like JH to be a godfather. Regarding his own work in Italy. Preparing the plans for the railway from Genoa to Milan under the direction of I. K. Brunel.
Death of son William on [21 May 1844].
Regarding JH's forthcoming visit to the Greenwich Observatory.
Whether a repulsive force from the sun affects the tails of comets and thus the constancy of their orbits.
Arrangements about attending a meeting, together with some thoughts on the behavior of comets.
Family news of the Wauchopes.
Discusses possibilities for republication of James Grahame's [History of the United States of North America]. Memoirs of Grahame are complete.