Will join him on Wednesday morning and go together. Has new result in astronomy.
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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.
Will join him on Wednesday morning and go together. Has new result in astronomy.
Thanks for gelatine [?] paper. Hopes to photograph the sun.
Invites to dinner. Will try to arrange meeting between ES and Danish hydrographer Captain Lahrtman[?].
Query regarding positions of stars in the various star catalogues.
About the health of Richarda Airy, JH, and William Parsons [Earl of Rosse].
Is defending himself against attacks for having become involved in the succession for Surveyor-General of India; JH further comments on photographic experiments, using various parts of the spectrum.
Thanks HK for a chronometer, and sends some polishing papers.
Opinions on proper representation of 'majority' in Parliament.
Details for paying tuition of John Herschel (son) at Addiscombe.
Will arrive in Portsmouth tomorrow.
Please read JH's enclosed response to 'J.G.'s [James Grahame's?] unjust, harsh...letter;' then show it to Mr. Whalley, before JH sends it. JS's exposé was excellent.
Sends deposit to be put into JH's account at Drummonds [Bank] as executor of Thomas Baldwin's estate. Margaret will send longer letter soon.
Has been waiting for an opportunity to thank him for his communication. This letter will be delivered by Mr. H. Bell, son of an eminent chemical manufacturer.
About changes in metals due to frequent expansions and contractions, and about the health of JH's son William.
Two problems verifying a theory of P. S. Laplace.
Commenting on aspects of family life, obviously raised in an earlier letter by MH.
Instructions about ordering wine, etc., for a [Christmas?] party.
Writes to commiserate with MH during a difficult time for her; is coming home on the weekend and bringing daughter Isabella with him.
Mostly about bonnets, and letters to be directed to the family at Collingwood.
Concerned about son Willy, who seems very lonely in India.