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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.
W. S. Williams visited Russian embassy and ascertained only that copies [of JH's Cape Results] were shipped. Suggests writing to [Russian ambassador F. I.] Brunnov for more exact information.
Returning the proofs of his article for the Admiralty Manual. 25 copies will be enough for him.
Some of his friends are wishing to put his name forward as a candidate for the fellowship of the R.S.L. Would JH sign his certificate?
Sending one of his own books, which he hopes JH will study.
Sending a certificate for R. J. Kane and would be pleased if JH would put his name at the head of the list.
Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results donated to library of Ipswich Philosophical Society. Explains public features of library. Invites JH to lecture there. Note on 'lunar rainbow.'
Acknowledges receipt of JH's Cape Results.
Grateful for Cape Results, received through Thomas Maclear.
An official certificate and a note of appreciation for the gift of JH's Cape Results. Also comments on JH's Prelim Discourse.
While TM was at Agulhas the large equatorial arrived, perfectly safe. Dome and railway have not arrived yet. Had a letter from W. R. Dawes. Found lighthouse at Agulhas well made and has sent sample of the material to Francis Beaufort. Not much news of the war in the Colony. Will take care over the mounting of the equatorial.