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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 be at the Visitation and intends to spend a few days in town. Has got the catalogue of objects for the star maps.
Can JH come to the congress on Friday?
Has invited some astronomical friends to the meeting on Friday.
Has obtained maps from the Diffusion Society and marked in the new stars and the constellations. Has arranged to send some to him.
Has received the maps. Gives F. W. Bessel's views on the re-arrangement of the constellations which has been proposed. Comments on FB's memorandum.
Is returning the report to the B.A.A.S., with one alteration. Will forward the map to Mr. Jensen with JH's remarks.
Was unable to visit FB; JH is suggesting some options for FB dealing with the star map, and whether it needs to go to the B.A.A.S. for approval.
Will be unable to attend the meeting of the B.A.A.S. His sister is having an operation to her eyes. Is sending an account of the comet. Mr. Jensen will be coming down with the map.
Mr. Jensen called to say that he will be visiting Collingwood on Monday with the map.
Has received official communication from the Treasury that the government will provide financial assistance to print the catalogues of stars. Both these catalogues and the one to be printed by the B.A.A.S. await their decision on star nomenclature.
Regarding the forthcoming publication of the star catalogues and matters arising. Has written a report on meteorological observations. Sends paper by J. H. Kay on the comet.
Has received the parcel. Papers regarding the comet have been sent to the R.A.S. John Hartnup is to copy out the catalogue of stars. Will have to wait awhile for the maps of F. W. A. Argelander and Mr. Schwinck. Is preparing for the printing of the catalogues.
Believes 'Mr. Maclean,' who reported from Africa observing increasing brightness of Eta Argus is not [Thomas] Maclear, but [George Maclean], the 'Governor of Cape Coast Castle [Ghana] & the husband of the unfortunate [Letitia Elizabeth Landon], whose singular death caused such a sensation some time ago.'
Sends specimens of works which are to go to press. Has had an estimate for the printing. Nomenclature has to be settled first.
Regarding the cost of printing the catalogues, and matters pertaining to them. Can FB give him any general table of processions. Has started work on the letter press of his own book.
Regarding bringing N. L. Lacaille up to a modern period. Regarding a table of precessions. FB's sister.
Has to come to town for a Trustee meeting of the British Museum and wonders whether it would be convenient for him to visit Tavistock Place to consult him on various matters.
It will be quite convenient for JH to visit him on Friday. Sister's health is improved. Delay in the celestial maps ordered.
Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.
Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.