Thanks for sending him the requiem.
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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.
Thanks for sending him the requiem.
Sending him the last Comptes rendus that can go by post. Hopes he can arrange some other method. Is always pleased to receive his publications.
Encloses seven notes from J. C. Ross to Edward Sabine and FB.
No objection to JH publishing soundings of J. C. Ross. FB will send JH detailed records of these. Any letters to Ross must arrive by 18 June for dispatch to Hobart Town. FB has copies of Thomas Maclear's correspondence about magnetic observations.
Apologizing for the delay. Sends various map locations. Also extract from Captain F. W. Beechy's letter regarding magnetic operations.
Is preparing an estimate for Parliament and would like his views on the usefulness of re-measuring N. L. Lacaille's base, etc., at the Cape.
Is sending him Thomas Maclear's account of taking the field and of commencing his base operations.
Edward Sabine has asked him to forward J. C. Ross's notes. If JH has finished with Thomas Maclear's letter would he return it.
Admiralty wished to present him with another part of the Cape Observations, and will hold it until someone is deputed to call at the office.
Sends JH a copy of Thomas Maclear's base measurements, and will transmit JH's letter to Maclear.
Thanks JH for his letters about the Cape equatorial instrument.
When his packet is ready for the Cape, forward it to him at the Admiralty and he will arrange for it to be sent. Congratulations on the new addition to the family. When next in town perhaps he would be interested in seeing the new object glass for the Cape, which William Simms is preparing.
Will send his letter to Thomas Maclear with one of his own. Agrees with him regarding the object glass, but feels that English artists should be encouraged.
Encloses a letter of Thomas Maclear. William Mann will be a great loss to the Observatory. Hopes Lady Herschel and new infant are doing well.
Will be pleased to dispose of the copies of the Reports when they arrive. Thanks for his own copy. Maria Edgeworth will be pleased with hers.
Two unsuccessful trips to Kensington to carry out JH's commission. Unable to meet 'Sir J.' Please write 'Private' on letters addressed to FB.
Completion and transfer of telescope for Cape [of Good Hope]. Grateful for receipt of [Cape Results].
[Received JH's 12 Nov. letter.] Send bill for Munich telescope to Admiralty. Order parts for dome construction, which [Thomas] Maclear cannot procure at Cape [of Good Hope].
[Reply to JH's 19 Nov. note.] FB may be able to get Admiralty to have roof [for telescope at Cape of Good Hope] built at Cranbrook under JH's direction. Submit plan or estimate of time and expenses. Just saw [Thomas] Maclear's letter telling of adventures in 'northern expedition.'
Sends JH a copy of sailing tables, and asks JH's opinion as to the value of printing them.