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Herschel3693

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[19 January 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23:5
Summary:

Cannot attend the testimonial committee meeting, but recommends that for a R.A.S. testimonial, a well written parchment would be far more effective than a bound book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3694

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.38
Summary:

Judges the unfinished portrait of Francis Baily a faithful rendering, although he is portrayed without the glasses, which he usually wore. Fears the intractability of [W. S.] Stratford and its implications for the workings of the R.A.S. Council. On the dispute between [W. R.] Dawes and [George] Bishop and how to resolve it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8408

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.294
Summary:

[Detached postscript] Asks JH's opinion of new apparatus that [William] Simms will soon put on paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3695

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[7 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.39 (C: RS:HS 25.9.18)
Summary:

Will help with the dispute between [W. R.] Dawes and [George] Bishop, provided certain things are understood by all the parties involved; enumerates these. Will speak as discretely as he can with [W. S.] Stratford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3696

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.40
Summary:

More on the matter of [W. R.] Dawes and [George] Bishop. Dawes deserves credit for the observation and reduction; Bishop for being 'founder & proprietor.' On JH's ability to mediate such situations, because he is so well liked. Confident in Bishop's 'good sense,' once he knows that he is being placed in JH's hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14443

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0530; Reel 1093
Summary:

George Bishop refuses permission for W. R. Dawes to edit Dawes's own observations. Portrait of Francis Baily should be nearly finished. Auction of Baily's books. Plans to start over 'de novo' and not use Baily's method for evaluating standards of measure. Convinced that standards must be connected with Ordnance survey of U.K. and T. F. Colby's units.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3697

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 April 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.41
Summary:

Hopes to inscribe a copy of Francis Baily's autograph on the proofs of his portraits. On the plates his full titles should be inscribed; asks JH's help in determining these. How RS can combine this with the autograph. On JH's dispute with James South.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3698

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[1845-4-22 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.33
Summary:

On Francis Baily's titles and on how to get a print with Baily's picture, autograph, and name in regular capitals. Explains remarks he made in a controversy with T. R. Robinson and published in the Athenaeum [Autumn, 1843] about JH's father's telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3699

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[14 September 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.42 (C: RS:HS 25.9.19)
Summary:

Thanks RS for the engraving [of JH's portrait?]. Who should receive copies? Suggests that the 'Knight of C. Hill' [Sir James South and his Campden Hill Observatory] 'is not worth your powder.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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