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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.
A covering note written for an enclosed letter (not available), all of it seeming to relate to filling a Cambridge position, for which J. S. Henslow seems eminently qualified.
Could not locate personal reference named Alexander Mackenzie in Cheltenham. Therefore, JH declines to employ 'F. E.'
Refer to 10 Sept. Morning Chronicle and 7 Sept. Literary Chronicle for biographies of William Herschel. Submit manuscript for JH's perusal before publication.
Instructions for sale and transfer of stocks according to William Herschel's will, and for payment of legacy to Johann Dietrich Herschel. Meet in broker's office at noon tomorrow.
Left 'proof plate' of William Herschel at JH's residence last week. Kept it in cottage for long time. Hopes it will find 'a better place' with JH.
Received [?]'s inquiry of 1 Feb. Lists all biographical notices pertaining to William Herschel. Comments in detail on biography and philosophy of WH in David Brewster's Edinburgh Review.
'Messrs. [Apsley] Pellatt and Green' will fill the pots on Monday. JH will attend. Asks correspondent to attend also. Has sent for Michael Faraday's approval a formula for making [the glass].
Referring to the R.S.L. Royal Medals commissioned on 15 Dec. 1825 by King George IV, JH confirms that Sir Thomas Lawrence has agreed to design the medals.
George Airy has written JH to say that he does not at this time wish to go to Dublin to offer himself as a candidate for the Andrews Professorship at Trinity College, Dublin. Asks advice on aspects of Airy's candidacy.
Offers the correspondent's friend the information that JH has received a letter indicating that John Henslow is a formidable candidate for the professorship of botany.
Requests particulars concerning the electors for position at University of Virginia for which William Ritchie has applied. Encloses Ritchie's letter of 1827-12-6.
Declines offer by Archbishop of Canterbury to join provisional committee to govern newly proposed King's College.
Expresses thanks for extract on cholera. Sends a copy of a paper on double stars. Hopes soon to be able to send supplement on double star orbits.
Gives permission to do anything with JH's letter; asks to be excused to J. W. Lubbock for not having written back.
Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'
Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.
Please send vol. 2 of Nathaniel Bowditch's translation of P. S. Laplace's Mécanique céleste.
As offered in [?]'s letter of 9 Aug. 1832, JH accepts position as member of B.A.A.S. Council.
Hopes for conveyance to Cambridge in covered vehicle for meeting of J. W. Lubbock's committee.
Describes sighting while at Slough a remarkably bright occurrence of the aurora borealis.