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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.
Can sympathize with JH as he has just lost a close relation. Has been unable to contact Edward Sabine. The Dublin and Munich curves have been engraved. Thanks for the Annalen. Howard Elphinstone has sent his [?].
Regarding the arrangement of 'Malus.'
Regarding the disposal of Andrew Bain's fossil remains from the Cape.
Is concerned to hear that L. A. J. Quetelet's system of observations is in danger of being broken up. Requires funds from the B.A.A.S. to publish his observations. Meteorological Society not likely to support his aims. Will consult Edward Sabine.
Has taken Camden Lodge and is making preparations for moving there. Has adapted his Amician micrometer to an excellent telescope. Comments on its faults and virtues.
B.A.A.S. should not assume publication of meteorological observations if L. A. J. Quetelet gives these up. Johann Lamont in Munich is better qualified. Received from John Caldecott five years of meteorological observations at Trevandrum [India]. George Peacock has invited B.A.A.S. to meet at Cambridge in 1845.
Encloses some specimens of photographs made by the use of chloride of gold and bichromate of potash. Comments on the process.
Describes activities at Charles Pritchard's school, including lessons in botany. Also reports that one fellow student is very ill.
Would like a suitable entry for JH to be printed in their edition of the Archives Historiques.
Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.
Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.
Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Sending a notice, which JH may be pleased to see, though he suspects the subject did not fall into able hands.
Sends a small College album of poems and snaps. Wishes JH would visit him at Bruges as they have ample room to entertain him. Hopes to publish meteorological observations kept by his grandfather, father, and himself. Comments on Saturday moons and wet and windy weather. Is he working on changes in the apparent magnitude of stars?
Please reseal letter and send to TL, who will investigate JH's complaint.
Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.
Outlines his domestic history. If JH knows of a suitable position vacant that may suit RH he would be pleased to hear of it. Cannot understand JH's lack of success with the photographic process RH uses. His own book is printed and is waiting for an engraving. Will send him a copy.
Encloses letter from Dr. [John] Locke. Wants to loan him a magnetometer to set up a station at Cincinnati. Received [John] Caldecott's volume of JH's observations. Thinks publishing costs will be high.
Sending more [life] tables. No age 65 in Charles Ansell's tables. Gives further advice on the running and financing of Friendly Societies.