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Herschel3767

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.14; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH and family are beginning to feel at home at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

The Herschels bought a Christmas tree this year; JH reports that his children loved it and that 'they will be sure to keep up the custom which is a very merry one.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3768

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 March 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.7.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of Amelia Herschel, JH's eighth child. Forwarding to CH an article describing the telescope of William Parsons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3992

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1841-4
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.8.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Has not unpacked William Herschel's letters that JH secured from the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3769

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.19.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

The reductions for JH's Cape Results are progressing. JH's mapping work has been 'carried over the whole surface of the heavens' this year.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3993

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 November 1841]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0586.20; Reel 1058
Summary:

Summarizes James Clark Ross's expedition to reach the Southern Magnetic Pole; JH reports that Ross has discovered that the pole lies several degrees more south than Carl Gauss had calculated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3770

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is confident that by summer his sweeps will all be reduced and arranged in three catalogs for JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3994

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
9] March [1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Remarks that he is 50 years old, and that he and CH have 'seen something of that odd and most changeable compound called Human Nature.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4025

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.9; Reel 1058
Summary:

Enjoyed CH's last letter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3771

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[11 July 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.10; Reel 1058
Summary:

Met Friedrich Bessel at the Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting; invited him to Collingwood, where he expects Bessel in a few days. Enclosed with the letter a specimen of a new photographic process called 'Chrysotype.' Marvels at traveling from Hawkhurst to Manchester round trip (420 miles) in under 23 hours!

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3995

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.12.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Describes the total solar eclipse seen by Francis Baily at Pavia and George Airy at Turin. They were thrilled to witness three purple flames from the blocked sun emerge around the edge of the moon. Thirty more Cape Town sweeps remain to be reduced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3772

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[4 September] 1842
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.13; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the erection of an obelisk at Feldhausen to commemorate the site of JH's 20-ft. reflector. Back at Cape Town, Thomas Maclear is measuring N. L. Lacaille's Arc of the Meridian. JH received the Prussian Order of Merit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3996

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.14; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of JH's ninth child, Julia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3773

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.15.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH finished his catalog of stars for his Cape Results; hopes to be finished with his nebulae and double star catalogs soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3848

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1842]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Finished the reductions of all of the nebulae and double stars recorded at Cape Town; JH soon hopes to prepare for the publication of his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4026

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wishes CH a happy 93rd birthday. Occupied with remodelling the Southern Constellations, which 'are all in confusion;' admits that not everyone will be satisfied with his constellation reforms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3997

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.8; Reel 1058
Summary:

Concerning the great comet of 1843, JH remarks that both Thomas Henderson and Johann Encke noted that the comet bounced off the sun's atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3998

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
15] June [1843
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.10.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Completed 'one of the most curious products' of JH's Cape Results: the map and catalog of the 'Nubecula major' region.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3999

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 September 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.13.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Enjoyed reading CH's account of some significant events from her life. Reports that James Clark Ross has returned safely from his South Pole expedition in which Ross discovered the true position of the South Magnetic Pole.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3774

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0588.17 & Extract 3pp TxU:H/L-0588.20; Reel 1058
Summary:

Assures CH that he has preserved everything that she ever wrote to JH or that he found in William Herschel's library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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