Leaving for two weeks in Netherlands.
Leaving for two weeks in Netherlands.
Orders 30 copies of lithograph.
Sends circular of F. W. Bessel's 'Declinations.' Sent paper on 25 July for Royal Society of Edinburgh, similar to DB's paper outlined in previous issue [of Edinburgh Journal of Science]. Argues for continuity of color spectrum versus 'per saltum' transitions.
Thanks for the publications by FB that FB sent. JH has sent the copies to the persons FB designated. Discusses the 'enigmatical difference in the places of the stars as observed here & on the Continent.' Cannot explain this.
Leaving for Calais tomorrow. Unable to see Mr. Beckwith. Hopes [Susan] White arrived safely in Slough. Encloses Astronomical Society's notice of F. W. Bessel's determination of declinations of fixed stars.
Travels with James Grahame from Calais to Brussels. Visit with General Pierre Cambronne and tour of Waterloo. Leaving tomorrow for Antwerp. Mr. Gibson is useless as traveling companion.
Lady Mary Herschel feels great sorrow, but her health is fair. Caroline Herschel is distracted by her return to Hanover. Hopes present extraordinary season will favor Henry Kater's observations. News from [Maria] Edgeworth.
JH gave passport to commander or steward with instructions to use it to retrieve mail forwarded to JH in Calais. Lack of response concerns JH. Please procure mail and send it with JH's passport to 9 Downing St. Reward.
Expresses remorse for JH's inattention to William Herschel while still alive. Lady Mary Herschel's grief. Invites JG to [missing]. Hopes to visit before JG leaves England.
Appreciates JS's support of JH's mother at death of William Herschel. Invites JS to attend WH's remains to grave.
Caroline Herschel is determined to leave England before JH can arrange William Herschel's affairs and accompany her to Hanover. Please notify JH when she is safely settled. JH is too grieved now to write more.
Legacy of stock for JDH from William Herschel's will. How shall JH transfer it to Hanover?
Grateful for GP's sympathy. JH's mother 'dreadfully distressed.'
Laments loss of William Herschel's affection; grateful for that of friends. Encloses rare book on 'arcana of Dutch commerce' that JH bought in Amsterdam. Will send list of works on same topic that JH found in library at Hague.
Requests that JH's letters be forwarded to Slough. JH gave passport to steamship captain, who failed to retrieve letters and lost JH's passport.
Thanks ME for sympathies [on death of William Herschel]. Received ME's list of books on Irish history. Met [John] Brinkley and wife and ME's brother during their visit to England.
Thanks for sympathy. Lady Herschel deeply afflicted. Caroline Herschel showing 'uncommon fortitude,' planning to return to Hanover. Heard that [missing] is beyond recovery; hopes she will be spared pain.
As executor of William Herschel's will, JH demands payment of half-year's rent on farm, due last March.
Reluctant to intrude on WW's own sorrow, but grateful for WW's forty-year friendship with William Herschel. Caroline Herschel departing for Hanover.
Could not locate personal reference named Alexander Mackenzie in Cheltenham. Therefore, JH declines to employ 'F. E.'