Questions JH's intent to display 'photogenic drawings' to R.S.L.
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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.
Questions JH's intent to display 'photogenic drawings' to R.S.L.
Considerable comment on procedure for submitting paper to R.S.L. Urges WT to mention JH's method of washing with hyposulfite. Comments on some photographic experiments of WT.
JH welcomes WT's mentioning JH's method of fixing with hyposulfite. JH has put some of JH's images on display at R.S.L. Mentions JH's recent experiments relating to photography. Comments regarding a paper submitted to R.S.L. by WT and on some experiments of WT.
Wants to withhold description of 'developing' process until it is perfected to obviate others using it. Also refers to second process to make 'positive' and 'negative.'
JH will as WT requests stop mentioning JH's hyposulfite fixing process and await publication of WT's process. Reports in detail on some of JH's experiments relating to photography and to spectrum analysis. [In a P.S. dated 1839-2-13,] JH states: 'I have discovered your secret of fixing [or its] equivalent.'
Some comments on JH's light and photography experiments, especially effects of different kinds of glass and fixing with ferrocyanate.
Describes mediocre results obtained using ferrocyanate of potash for fixing image. Mentions some other methods, including his favorite, common salt. Asks JH to keep these secret.
Finally had success washing with ferrocyanate. Wants to present note of 'his' processes to R.S.L. and so to the world.
Wishes to communicate to J. B. Biot, and so to Academie des sciences, JH's two 'beautiful' fixing methods, by hyposulfite and ferrocyanate.
Invites WT to mention JH's hyposulfite process to J. B. Biot. Recounts JH's recent experiments.
Enlarges upon his method of using salt as photographic fixer; then asks JH to explain the chemistry thereof. Has tried Louis Daguerre's fixing process without success.
Sent WT's specimens to J. B. Biot and F. J. D. Arago in Paris. Developed paper sensitive to heat rays of sun 'beyond the spectrum.' Diagram of three spectra: 'luminous, chemical, and thermic.'
Further chemicals used for fixing, including bromide potash.
Thanks for specimen of light sensitive paper. Provides hint on the chemical process that Louis Daguerre may have used in his photographic work. Sends specimens of JH's own work.
Comments on Louis Daguerre's use of muriatic ether, and encloses a photograph of hand writing.
Describes method of varying the size of photographic images. Praises Talbot's light sensitive paper and suggests improvements regarding it. Complains about persons too ready to seek a patent.
Comments on a number of chemicals used in photography, as well as referring to JH's process of making 'enlargements.'
Consists mostly of a transcription of two short notes from J. B. Biot to JH by way of WT.
Sends a sample picture fixed by use of iodine [potash].
Comments on several approaches to fixing images on paper, especially using pure water as a fixing agent. Has developed a new sensitive paper but is keeping it secret until perfected. Is leaving for Continent on 1 May.