Has just received his letter. Further advice on Friendly Societies.
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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.
Has just received his letter. Further advice on Friendly Societies.
Has already sent him [William?] Tidd's tables as he requested. Regarding the printing by 5th April. Has sent tables to Farley.
Their Tidd Pratt tables crossed. Comments on Charles Ansell's and J. T. Pratt's tables.
Under pressure of time, JH is anxious to resolve the question of appropriate actuarial tables.
Corrections to the actuarial tables.
Is sending all the tables to the printer tomorrow. Has given tables A and B a heading. J. T. Pratt's table is similar to his own though not accurate in decimals to the pound.
Printer unable to send proof to Richard Farley so JH will not be able to have proof by the 5th. Has requested printer to forward proof to JH.
Further emendations regarding printing the policy of the benefit society.
Thanks for all the help with the benefit society material.
Hopes Richard Farley's proof was in order. Gives details of steel pens he uses. Picture he sends is by W. H. Smyth. Is moving to new address.
The benefit society is launched and all is well.
Send money for Richard Farley to the Nautical Almanac Office. Has just moved house and is in the process of moving thousands of books.
Forwards a copy of the rules and regulations of the benefit society, with much thanks.
Thanks for book. Has written three books on the foundation of algebra. Comments on these.
Hopes the Friendly Society goes on well.
JH agrees to write a biographical sketch of Francis Baily, and hopes he can count on others for information.
Continues to work on biographical sketch of Francis Baily [see JH's 1844]; is working through a lot of material to do it.
Has sent some of AD's algebra papers to Mary Somerville; comments on death of Francis Baily.
Will send the information to Mary Somerville. Death of Francis Baily is most grievous. Hopes JH will write an obituary. Society has to elect a new president. Regarding his own algebraic papers.
Has been unable to reply to JH's note as he was ill. There will be a special General meeting of the society in November to hear the memoir of Francis Baily. Will send all the information as soon as possible. Has invented a new algebraic symbol.