Will he and David Brewster dine with him on Tuesday.
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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 he and David Brewster dine with him on Tuesday.
Sends deciphered code. Explains how CB solved it. [CB note dated 24 Mar. 1846: Technique for deciphering code.]
CB has 'decyphered' JH's puzzle. JH will not try to puzzle CB again.
Would like a reference from him regarding a candidate for a position at the Mint. Would like him and David Brewster to dine with him.
Please let him have David Brewster's address.
Will show his friends round the Mint.
Regarding his plans for lighthouses. Had a visit from L. F. Menabrea in his absence. Who manufactures the specified telescopes?
Further regarding lighthouses.
Can he lend him the Cambridge Calendar or tell him the examiners in the mathematical tripos.
Does not wish to become a Vice-Patron of the College of Preceptors.
Invitation to attend the wedding ceremony at St. James' Piccadilly [for the wedding of Caroline E. M. Herschel and Col. Alexander H. Gordon]
Number of half-crowns minted in the years 1832-53.
Send the names and addresses of any friends who may wish to see the Mint. Thanks for pamphlet on income tax.
Hopes CB will dine with JH at Hawkhurst next week as JH hears CB will be in the neighborhood.
Saw in the Times that JH is working on universal alphabet. Sends Wolfgang Kempelen's book (1791) on mechanism of speech. Speculates on machine that could produce phonetic sounds for universal language.
Sends JH a copy of a recent issue of the Athenaeum in which falsehoods, copied from a Richard Sheepshanks pamphlet, have been printed. CB wants JH to respond to, and correct, these falsehoods quickly.
Refuses to become a partisan in this conflict [see CB's 1854-12-13]. JH would only become involved if he felt he could be a peacemaker.
Regarding a suitable engraving of William Herschel to be added to William Walker's engraving of a meeting at the Royal Institution.
Wishes to introduce an American friend, Professor Stephen Alexander, to JH.
Sorry that CB's nephew bothered JH with request for money from fund for CB's sister. Nephew must deal directly with Reversionary Interest Society. Recalls mutual vow of JH and CB forty years ago to pursue many intellectual endeavors.