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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.
Finds he made an error last night due to his bad memory. The Duke was asking for JH; hopes he met him after Richard Owen's discourse.
Enclosing the tickets. Hopes the whiskey will be good.
No doubt he is aware of F. A. Nobert's work on glass. Has received from him a paper, which he intends communicating to the R.S.L. Thinks JH may like to see it.
The accompanying book was addressed to MF but inscribed to JH, so he considers it belongs to JH.
Did as JH wished with the papers. Is busy with magnetism and lines of force. Sends a couple of printings.
Sending a letter he has received from [Rudolf?] Wolfe. Will send it to the R.S.L. or the R.A.S after JH has seen it, whichever he thinks best.
Has not read up the different treatises on elementary chemistry but gives three authors: George Fowne, Thomas Graham, and W. T. Brande. Has sent [Rudolf?] Wolfe's letter to Edward Sabine.