Will he join them at dinner tomorrow; regrets he was prevented from being with them on the 13th due to a cold.
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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.
Will he join them at dinner tomorrow; regrets he was prevented from being with them on the 13th due to a cold.
Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] wants to avoid coining new silver money for Commissariat and for Colonies if these can be obtained through Bank [of England]. JH will receive such request today from Western Australia.
Chancellor of Exchequer [Charles Wood] authorizes increasing salary of W. H. Barton to £700. Write official letter to this effect with full details, as if no previous correspondence had occurred. [Prime Minister] John Russell approved appointment of W. T. Brande's son as supernumerary clerk in Mint. Treasury is now ready to receive JH's budget for 1852-53.
Congratulates EC on the first volume of Stars near the Ecliptic: JH expects never to observe again.
Does not understand difficulty with Benedetto Pistrucci. Expects BP to be available for employment whenever needed. Whether BP should execute a particular work is JH's decision, not BP's.
Changes in engraving department are delayed by Benedetto Pistrucci's 'extreme reluctance' to alter title of Chief Medallist. Suggests offering Pistrucci official assurance of continued employment.
Outlines his history with the Mint, including his promotion to Chief Engraver in 1817. Claims he was promised a pension at this time. Reports that the Treasury declared there were 'insurmountable difficulties as [BP] was a foreigner and a Catholic ...' in obtaining the original pension granted. The pension was then reduced from £500 to £350. Complains that his son was not granted the apprenticeship promised him. Outlines all pension plans proposed by the Treasury and why they are inadequate.
His concern [see JH's 1852-1-16] was not to suggest less bravery on the part of women and girls, but because Collingwood might well be in the middle of any fray. Agrees with MH's precautions about revaccination.
Proposal for dividing travel money for the Sydney University professors. Does GA agree [see JH's 1852-1-9]?
Sends JH a copy of a request to the Lords of the Treasury for a pension settlement [see BP's 1852-1-24].
Encloses completed security bond for Robert Mushet, with additional title of Senior Clerk added, as suggested by JH. [JH annotation: Procedure for processing and storing Mushet's bond.]
Has no photographs with him and when next JH goes to Collingwood, he will look to see if there are any left.
Agrees with JH's proposal regarding travel money for Sydney University professors [see JH's 1852-1-29].
A note to add to a previous letter.
Encloses item that is not to be distributed.
MH is suffering [teeth?] and is urged to come to London; a few items of news and household accounting.
Suggests course of action regarding 'Gen'l. Cullen's [?]' hydrometric observations submitted to R.S.L.
Has forwarded four boxes of geological specimens by the Bosphorus; these are the illustrations for [Andrew] Bain's map. Peace is about to be declared in the Kaffir War. There have been several bush fires and one almost damaged Feldhausen.
Thanks for his help regarding his nephew. Hopes mild weather has not upset JH. Doubtless he has seen notes of the various observations of Saturn in R.A.S.M.N.
Thanks JH for recommendation for position in Department of Antiquities at British Museum.