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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.
Forwards to Treasury, without JH's approval, request by F. R. Brande and Henry Finch,junior clerks in Mint office, for higher salary. [JH note: Brande disclaimed knowledge of this request. Brande and Finch retracted it, but wanted to send another. JH refused.]
Regrets to hear of the ill health of JH. Believes that a sea voyage to the Cape would work wonders. The transit circle is in full working order. Comments on some of the work connected with it. Has heard that an accident had occurred to William Parsons' (3rd Earl of Rosse) 6-foot speculum. No news of David Livingstone.
Declines to serve on experimental committee for R.S.L.
TG volunteers to succeed JH as master of Mint if JH resigns. Willing to replace JH in summers when TG's college duties are suspended. [JH annotation to wife Margaret: '...there are greater fools in the world' than JH.]
Thanks for JH's letter to Mr. McCulloch on JA's behalf. Hopes for permanent appointment.
Has no power to determine JH's successor to mastership of Mint. Make application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].
Agrees to help in other ways than as committee member [see JH's 1855-2-25].
Reports status of Crimean medal and Cape medal [Kaffir medal?]. Benjamin Wyon expects to have models ready soon. [Addressed to 'My Lord'.]
Extraordinary demand for gold and silver coin in 1852-54 has subsided. Reports disposition of twelve Custom House employees who were assigned to Mint as temporary clerks for this period.
Will visit JH tomorrow at Bedford Place to submit LW's wax model for Kaffir medal.
Reminds WB that Mint rules do not permit paying skilled laborer's wages to casual employees such as Patrick Shanahan.
Copy [in JH's hand] of doctor's prescription for four to five weeks of bed rest and country air for JH before resuming duties at Mint.
Sends audit form with covering letter for JH's signature.
Asks GS about ordering instruments from [George] Wilson.
JH's health is worse. Please expedite JH's request to resign from mastership of Mint. Seeks HT's approval to turn JH's duties over to W. H. Barton.
Expects difficulty with wages listed for Patrick Shanahan and one other worker at Mint. Find documents that authorized JH to pay additional overtime wages during coinage pressure of last two years.
Delayed paying [W. O.] Young until JH approves papers on Hannibal claim [for ship's salvage].
Encloses two Mint documents relating to wages for Patrick Shanahan and another worker. JH failed to return papers on Hannibal claim.
Gives former reason for retaining Charles Stiles, who may now be dismissed.
Wages and overtime pay for Patrick Shanahan.