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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.
Apologizes for not visiting Slough. Tells of difficulties of attempting to move his family to London.
JH is concerned about MH's health, especially her sore teeth; JH sends along some letters, and reports that all are well at Slough.
About buying horses, and closing the deal to buy Collingwood. JH refers to an enclosure about anti-slavery.
About the choices to be made in moving furniture from Slough to Collingwood; problems about the election of a minister at Eton.
Mostly about boxes packed and shipped to Collingwood, along with questions about items of equipment there.
About a tragic fire nearby, and more about moving goods to Collingwood.
Complains about the loneliness now that the family is gone from Slough, as are most of their goods.
Trying to establish which of the boxes of household effects that have been shipped from Slough have arrived at Collingwood; comments on the weather.
The packing and shipping of goods to Collingwood is complete; JH will now attend to a few final details and then come to Collingwood, having spent the most horrible 'fortnight in my life.'
Mostly about damage to furniture during shipment from Slough to Collingwood.
Has been troubled with his face again. Regarding the Scotch ale, which can be obtained to order in London. Saw J. F. Encke in town and he has now sailed. Francis Jeff[re]y (Lord Jeffrey) has been staying at Haileybury and speaks much of JH.