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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.
Recollections of this house JG has just sold.
Thanks JH for news of newly formed Astronomical Society; will be pleased to be a foreign correspondent for it.
Of religious matters, accusations against the Queen, and of Charles Babbage [letter completed 1820-11-4].
Has returned from his holiday. Thanks for the chemical periodicals. Has evolved some new schemes.
William Herschel's health. Lady Watson and Miss Joy are well. Sad that JH will not visit Bath.
Offering any assistance during the funeral period of Mrs. Beckwith [wife of Thomas?].
Offers JH the consolations of religion to deal with his unhappiness.
HW expected news of Mrs. Beckwith's death, following receipt of letter from Mary Baldwin describing poor health of her sister.
Discusses study of Oolite beds. Mother recently died. Will bring paper to publisher. Discusses last Cambridge Philosophical Society meeting, [James] Wood, and [E. D.] Clarke. Cannot locate the crystal JH requested.
About the expenses and arrangements regarding the publication of JH's A Collection of Examples of the Application of the Calculus of Finite Differences.
Returns the polarizing apparatus by the Windsor coach, and is grateful for the loan of it. Hopes to supply Dr. Jackson with a suitable instrument. Sending a paper on parallel plates.
Will see JH on Friday; hoping for clear weather.
About the expenses of their joint publication [see GP's 1820-11-16], rumors of a vacancy in the Lucasian professorship, and about the new observatory at Cambridge.
Urging JH to come to Cambridge to examine the plans for the new observatory.
Giving him instructions arising from the recent meeting of the Astronomical Society. Gives details of JH's books he has in his possession. Has been experimenting with the game of noughts and crosses. Gives a problem in analysis. Regarding a paper by JH on numbers.
About observatory plans and possible vacancies at Cambridge.
Father died. Consoles JH on loss of Mrs. Beckwith. Will always remember kindness shown by Herschel family when EW was attending Eton.
Compares observed times of rocket bursts at observatory and at Blackman St.
Can JH deputize for him at the Astronomical Society meeting?
Further eclipse observations from around the world [see HW's 1820-7-30].