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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.
Sending a copy of the English Universities. Has quoted JH in the third volume. Hopes that university reform will be a popular topic.
Agrees with JH opinions of Gamma Virginis orbit. Sends JH a drawing by C. P. Smyth of Halley's Comet.
Enclosing the specimens of photographs by different methods; comments on the methods used. Encloses a paper by Were Fox.
Should JH be attending the B.A.A.S. meeting at Cork, hopes he will visit WP and spend a few days with him. Gives news of the progress of his great telescope.
Pleased with JH's Gamma Virginis results. Mr. Visconti made head of Military Geographical Institute at Naples.
Provides JH with the measurements from a series of observations of Gamma Virginis.
Had to leave Calcutta owing to his health and was entrusted with a packet for JH from a Mr. McClelland, and has only now succeeded in tracking down JH's new address. Will remain in England for a few years. Hopes that JH's Cape labors are progressing.
Will send JH's report to JH in August. J. C. Ross will not be at Cork meeting, but JH may announce there that first year of Ross's observations at sea will appear in R.S.P.T.
Is much obliged for letter and pretty specimen of English hexameters. Is sad that there has been no success with the classical hexameter in our language. Comments on its use.
If not already invited, he would be very welcome to be their guest at Bristol when the new iron screw ship is named by the Prince Consort. Outlines method of reaching Bristol.
The committee report on simultaneous magnetical and meteorological observations will be read at the B.A.A.S. meeting in Cork on 17 Aug.
Was gratified to receive JH's letter and intends to avail himself of the invitation to visit Hawkhurst. Will be visiting General [Bell]. Gives observations of the comet.
Regarding the measurement of angles. Observations on a problem set by JH.
Is pleased JH has such a high opinion of the new work on the English universities; it has hardly been noticed by the public. V. A. Huber belongs to the Conservative party but tries to be impartial as a historian. Hopes that the amount of reading at universities will be reduced.
Since he forwarded the parcel he has changed his address.
WD's 1843 measurements for Gamma Virginis. Used crystal micrometer for all observations, to compare with parallel wire micrometer used in past.
Is returning the report to the B.A.A.S., with one alteration. Will forward the map to Mr. Jensen with JH's remarks.
Will be unable to attend the meeting of the B.A.A.S. His sister is having an operation to her eyes. Is sending an account of the comet. Mr. Jensen will be coming down with the map.
Mr. Jensen called to say that he will be visiting Collingwood on Monday with the map.
Regarding a nuisance created at Slough by a steam engine.