Enclosing an invitation from Humphry Davy to dine with him. Invitation for JH to dine with CB also.
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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.
Enclosing an invitation from Humphry Davy to dine with him. Invitation for JH to dine with CB also.
SW's nephew Henry White is coming to Cambridge with message from [servant] Sally, who misses JH.
Asks JH to befriend nephew Henry White, scholar and missionary at Cambridge. Asks about Mary Baldwin. When will JH visit again? [JH annotation: Asked William Whewell to call on Henry White.]
Has doubtless received his Treatise on the Corrections of the Equatorials. Col. L. A. Fallon, head of the Austrian Survey, would like a Robert Molyneux clock. Can JH arrange to order one and send it via H. C. Schumacher. Encloses some notes on practical astronomy, which may be useful.
Board of Longitude will meet at TY's home on Saturday.
Sends letter by Mr. Massotti of the Milan observatory, who is leaving to find employment in England. Massotti wishes to sell his dividing machine in England. FT hopes to see JH in England at the reunion of the Societé Helvetique.
Letter of introduction for O. F. Mossotti.
Is collecting and translating William Herschel's writings, projected for 4 volumes, the first one already being in press. Requests JH to provide additional biographical information about his father for one of the later volumes.
Returning the five volumes of the Berlin yearbook with thanks. Regarding the observations of P. F. A. Méchain at Slough in 1787.
Writing in confidence, informs JH of a conversation with Humphry Davy concerning the appointment of assistants for John Pond, Astronomer Royal. Situation complicated by Pond's precarious health and the widespread belief that JH would be the appropriate successor to Pond.
New Observatory is being planned on the lines of the new one being built at Obo in Finland. Would like an open letter from JH on the requirements for an observatory. Is there any news of the clock for [L. A.?] Fallon?