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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.
Glad to hear that Margaret Louisa [JH's daughter] is coming to visit GA's family; could JH send along the key to the R.A.S. strong box?
Responds to GA's 1849-4-4, and sends the key.
Some responses to the question of copyright and of revision of articles prepared for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Is making a case for JH's priority claims with regard to the means of determining double star orbits, in conflict with Yvon Villarceau.
A note about forwarding papers related to the double star question [see JH's 1849-4-9].
Returning papers of Yvon Villarceau and an abstract of them, together with comments on them.
Extended comments about some of GA's statements in GA's abstract of Yvon Villarceau's papers on double stars [see GA's 1849-4-11].