Recalls happy days JH spent with MW's relatives. MW is now 76 and in good health, but experiencing financial difficulties. Will JH help her? Reports news of her brothers, Alexander and Patrick.
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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.
Recalls happy days JH spent with MW's relatives. MW is now 76 and in good health, but experiencing financial difficulties. Will JH help her? Reports news of her brothers, Alexander and Patrick.
Worried by not having heard from son John, especially as there is cholera in India; JH sends news of the family, especially of how bright the younger girls are; also comments on world events and about books sent to John.
Sends four sheets of his Memoir of Thomas Drummond and would be pleased if JH would look over them and correct any errors. Miss Elizabeth Drummond continues an invalid. Is also sending the proof sheets to Sir T. A. Larcom.
Regarding his observations. Sending a copy of his original observations. Regarding the new variable star [T Coronae].
R. A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne) would like JH's opinion on the value of the investigations carried out by Messrs. Schlagintweit in 1854; four volumes have already been published.
Presents in some detail and with an illustration his observations of the meteor shower 13-14 Nov. 1866.
[Printed letter] Collecting poems related to natural history and physical science. Lists 16, including JH's 'On the Herschelean Telescope.'
Has been asked to comment on the writings of Hermann von Schlagintweit, but JH has not yet had time to read them carefully and so cannot comment.
Many thanks for his prompt attention to the proof sheets; sends some more. Miss Elizabeth Drummond is gratified by JH's interest.
Corrects earlier statement that JH has not received vol. 4 of the study of India written by [Robert and Hermann] Schlagentweit
Compares observations of meteor shower in Orion with JH. Describes methods and observations in detail.
Regarding the inventor of the compensation bars. Would not attribute their invention to Thomas Drummond in the light of J. E. Portlock's evidence. Thanks for the paper on ancient Greek kinship.
If his own collection of poems is printed he hopes JH will allow him to include the one on the telescope. His own health has improved. Outlines a proposition for JH to work on if he has time.
Carefully describes how to pack actinometers being shipped to India.
Outlining the chances and difficulties of bringing the [Samuel] Parlby case before the Cape Government. Alexander Herschel would have been delighted with the display of shooting stars and volcanic eruptions seen at the Cape last Thursday.
Was not prepared for the facts regarding the invention of the compensation bars as expressed in JH's letter. Will investigate the various claimants further.
Hears that JH is preparing his father's measurements of double stars for the R.A.S.; would like to publish his own work on double stars in the same volume. Would like to know when the work will be ready for publication.
Apologizes if AQ has missed answering one of JH's letters. Talks about meteorology of Belgium worked on over 30 years. Wants JH's photo for his work on statistics. Congratulates JH on his son's good work. Has received work from Collingwood and would love to know author.
Many thanks for his book [Familiar Lectures], which he is reading from the beginning. Comments on JH's views. Is Sidees a star or a constellation? Congratulations on his completion of Homer. Everyone is translating Homer now, and gives one of his own examples.
Deep appreciation for JH's donation.