Delighted with performance of WL's telescopes in Maltese climate. Invites JH to visit. Awaiting JH's catalogue of nebulae. Seeking assistant.
Delighted with performance of WL's telescopes in Maltese climate. Invites JH to visit. Awaiting JH's catalogue of nebulae. Seeking assistant.
Describes galaxy-like gaseous nebula with interior elliptical ring.
Received JH's list of nebulae. Will observe and confirm as many as possible. Honored by Alexander Herschel's offer to be WL's assistant. Defines WL's expectations of assistant.
Apologizes for returning WL's letter unopened. JH receives many letters with postage due from strangers and does not accept them. Did not recognize WL's address in Malta. Gives summary of JH's 3 Oct. 1862 letter to WL that seems to have been lost.
Best candidate for WL's assistant seems to be [Albert] Marth of Durham. Describes new planetary nebula.
Suggests Albert Marth of Durham observatory as possible assistant to WL. JH's notes and diagram of nebular ring.
About the procedures WL uses when observing, and the responsibilities of an assistant.
After receiving testimonials of the highest order he has appointed [Albert?] Marth to be his assistant. Encloses some observations of nebulae. If JH's sons are visiting Malta he would be pleased to see them.
Was grateful for a copy of the proof sheets of JH's forthcoming 'Catalogue of Nebulae.' Comments on the Colonial book post. May discover a few hundred new nebulae but they are faint. Regrets to learn that JH's health is not good. Temperature has been very warm.
Encloses lithographs of some of his drawings of nebulae, and two tracings of [?] 2241. Has presented his large equatorial to Melbourne and invited the Astronomer Royal [G. B. Airy] to Malta to observe through the telescope before it is dispatched to Australia. Would also welcome a visit from JH.
Comments on the several drawings of the same nebulae; thanks WL for the invitation to Malta but JH is too ill to accept.
Sending his impression, formed during a recent visit to Dublin, of the Great Telescope destined for Melbourne. Considers it a triumph of mechanical invention.
Encloses inventory of JH's unpublished manuscripts on General History of Double Stars, which AH forwarded to R.A.S. Estimates final total of JH's double star observations.