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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.
Col. Ouseley had a son at Addiscombe. Has ascertained the relative value of the various branches of study in the final examination. Gives table of values. Hears that military drawing puzzles some. Children are well. If Johnny [Herschel] draws as well as Louisa [Herschel] at 14 he will do well.
Encloses perturbation sheets for checking.
Thanks for answers about moon and proof of JH's next book. Seeks evidence to support claim that clouds disappear when moon is full. Enquires about lunar formulas.
Remarks in response to GA's 1848-10-4..
Discusses U. J. J. Leverrier's paper on Neptune. Difference between distance of real and theoretical planets. News that JH is going to publish Outlines Astr. Hopes to see him at Cambridge on the day the Public Orator is being elected.
Asks JH to review Lord Lovelace's [William King's] paper on moon's influence on weather.
Some question of Harvard University observer having observed the satellite [see JH's 1848-9-22] one day before WL.
[Addressed to 'General ?'.] Comments on memo on refraction sent to Thomas Maclear.
Quotes passage from A. E. P. Gasparin comparing JH's actinometer to other such instruments. Seeks JH's opinion of Adolphe Quetelet's hypothesis of heat. Question on photographic chemicals and 'calorific rays.'
Returns JH's diaries with observations of moon's effect on cloud cover. Quotes citation of these observations to appear in WK's new paper.
Has received further proof sheets of the perturbations from the printer. Regarding Isaac Newton's theory of the motion of the moon's apse.
Outlining the apparent controversy between himself and W. C. Bond over the discovery of the satellites.
Further regarding W. C. Bond's discovery of the Neptunian satellites.
Returned proof of Lord Lovelace's [William King's] review of [A. E. P.] Gasparin. Notes and sketch regarding actinometers and other instruments.
Criteria for deciding who can claim to be the discoverer of the satellite. [This letter marked 'not sent on second thoughts; see RS:HS 23.41 for letter sent.]
Lists problems with JH's proposal for reform of the phonetic alphabet found by the missionary committee.
Asks HT to appeal for a pension for H. C. Schumacher, director of the Royal Danish Observatory.2
Replies to JH's letter of [9]-11 stating that he will do the article on statistics for JH's Admiralty Manual, and outlines what he expects it to include and to exclude. Asks JH for directions.
Requests donation of JH's Cape Results to library of Ipswich Philosophical Society.
Gives JH's 1848-10-16 letter to the Danish Minister as a direct appeal for H. C. Schumacher.