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Herschel3831

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1833]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Feeling simply 'dismal.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3973

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1833-4-25[?]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.4.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH explains how CH's money will be allotted to her while JH is in Cape Town. Margaret Herschel writes CH a note describing JH's new son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14745

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0936.1; Reel 1083
Summary:

Formal note and stamp acknowledging receipt of £50 annuity from estate of William Herschel, sent by executor JH, followed by note to JH on arrangements for sending such payments. Asks for news about Stewart family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3758

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 July 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.5.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sent to CH JH's fifth catalog of double stars. JH will send to CH his new nebulae observations very soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3832

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1833]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wishes JH well on his upcoming trip to the Cape of Good Hope. Asks JH to study the lower part of the Scorpion, for William Herschel was mystified by the 'uncommon appearance of that part of the heavens.' [Written as a postscript to a letter by Margaret Herschel.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[2 November 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.7.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Mentions to CH that 2000 of the nebulae and all of the engravings are printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3759

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.8; Reel 1058
Summary:

Ready to embark to Cape Town; JH expects to arrive at the end of January. Sent out the last proof sheet of JH's nebulae catalog last night.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3975

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 December 1833]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0578.9.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Sailing to Cape Town, JH reports sighting an English ship.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3760

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1834]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0579.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports that they are 'safely landed and comfortably housed' in Africa. The Herschels were at sea for nine weeks and two days. Required several days to unload the instruments and luggage from the ship. Has chosen a house, about five miles from town, called 'The Grove.' Excited with the calm, clear nights, which will be excellent for observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3976

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1834]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0579.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reviews his voyage to Africa in case CH did not receive JH's 1834-1-21 letter. Repairing the house that they bought outside of Cape Town, called 'Feldhausen' by the Dutch and 'The Grove' by the English; they are staying at another home close by. Happy that Table Mountain near the house shelters Feldhausen from southeast gales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3833

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1834]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Thrilled that JH has arrived safely in Cape Town; notes that JH's Cape Town trip has captivated the intellectual world.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3837

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[6 June 1834]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Sweeping progressing quickly; has used the 20-ft. reflecting telescope since February. Discovered two planetary nebulae. Studying Scorpio closely, as CH suggested; has found gorgeous globular clusters there. The equatorial was erected recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3838

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1834]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Asks about JH's children. Remarks that JH's discovery of globular clusters in the Scorpion is not what she remembered William Herschel being mystified about; remembers that WH exclaimed that there seemed to be a 'Loch im Himmel' ('hole in heaven') there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3977

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0580.1.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

JH describes his sweeps of Scorpio. Writes that the Milky Way is 'extremely curious and interesting.' Has collected a large catalog of southern nebulae, many never before detected. JH's search for Halley's Comet has been unsuccessful thus far.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3979

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0580.3.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Applauds CH elected an [honorary] member of the R.A.S. Missed seeing Halley's Comet and Johann Encke's comet; Thomas Maclear, however, viewed Encke's three times. Has studied nearly the entire Southern sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3981

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.2.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reports the birth of his fifth child, Alexander Stewart. Has made some excellent observations of Halley's Comet. Asks CH to inform Carl Gauss that JH has not received Gauss's magnetometer nor is JH certain of how to use it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3980

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[8 March 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.1.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Is too busy to use Carl Gauss's magnetometer. Viewing Halley's Comet has interrupted JH's sweeps. Reports that Gamma Virginis is a single star in both the 20-ft. reflector and 7-ft. equatorial.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4038

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1836]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Has recently been too ill to write. Sent portraits of William Herschel to Wilhelm Struve, Heinrich Schumacher, Karl Gauss, Friedrich Bessel, and others.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3982

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
1836-[8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.3.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Work nearly finished here. Has documented the sixth satellite of Saturn and has seen possibly a seventh.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3983

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0581.4.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Confident that 1837 will be his last year in Africa. JH's catalog of nebulae and double stars is nearly complete. Has a series of observations of Halley's Comet from 1836-1-25 to 1836-5-5. Although JH is too busy to undertake any magnetic studies, he has been providing information about Carl Gauss's magnetometer to the new observatory in Bombay. Recalls that Charles Babbage mentioned the 'principle' of Gauss's method 'at least 10 or 12 years' ago.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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