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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.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Offers suggestions from painter [John] Martin on how to alter engravings on steel plates, like those with which JH was dissatisfied.
Wants a copy of his Cape Results for his assistant. Would he continue to observe the duration of annularity in the coming eclipse?
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Will be happy to supply a copy of the Cape Results [see GA's 1847-9-27]; the next asteroid should be called Flora, to provide 'young goddesses for Mars and Jupiter to admire.'
Smith, Elder & Co. wrote to all American intended recipients [of JH's Cape Results; see SE's 1847-9-23]. Still trying to get cooperation from American envoy. Asks JH's permission to publish now.
Legation does not ordinarily forward parcels to America, but JH's unique reputation leads GB to set a precedent. Instructions for packaging copies [of JH's Cape Results]. S. C. Walker is now at National Observatory in Washington, D.C.
Regarding a letter from the Newcastle Philosophical Society.
Presents a copy of JH's Cape Results for transmission to the observatory of the University of Tübingen.
Has been here some 10 days. Received a copy of JH's great work before leaving Scotland. Hopes of a review of it from George Peacock. Longmans is now arranging for the printing of the review.
Please send latitude and longitude of Hawkhurst. Family benefited by trip to Southampton. Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.