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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.
Saw article in the [London] Times about Lord Rosse's telescope. Has received a letter from [James] South. Asks for information from JH for private use. [Francesco] del Vico has observed triple stars, but HS thinks the telescope by [R. A.] Cauchoix is flawed.
Sends copy of announcement from [Hervé] Faye at Paris observatory of a new comet in Orion. Requests use of JH's letter about double tail on [Halley's] comet in Astronomische Nachrichten. Note from Faye has a gross error in location of comet.