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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[1843 – 8 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 91
Summary:

Reports events at Down.

The "atrocious doings" of "Old Price". Price’s dispute with Sir John Lubbock over a boundary fence.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John David Roberton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1843
Source of text:
RS MM.16.152
Summary:

Asks JH to report on whether and why JH thinks J. D. Forbes's paper on transparency of atmosphere and solar range worthy of Royal Medal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1843 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.134
Summary:

About organization of the executive of the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Henry Fitton]
Date:
[1843 to 1850 ?]
Source of text:
WT 62824.2
Summary:

Comments on the intention of a friend of WF to write a work on geography. JH's son William was ill and at home and had commented on WF's son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[William Radcliffe Birt]
Date:
[1 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.99
Summary:

Reduction of barometer curves is nearly complete. Must have all papers within two weeks to prepare for B.A.A.S. meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Hodgson
Date:
[1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.197 & 22.173
Summary:

Returns with many thanks E. C. Hawtrey's translations from Homer and Kallinos. Both are beautifully done. Comments on these and the meters suitable for English ears.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
1843
Source of text:
JHS 3.32
Summary:

Is visiting Dr. [Richard?] Hobson, where JH has met some European scientists, such as F. W. Bessel and G. A. Erman; JH anticipates they will come to visit at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Jackson Hooker
Date:
--[1843]
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.223, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH explains why he has not been able to see his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker. He had Captain [James Clark] Ross's permission to leave the ship for home as soon as they arrived at Deptford or Woolwich but Mr Bird, the Commander, refused JDH leave.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.233
Summary:

Encloses a publication. Thanks for the gift to Miss Elizabeth Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
G. A. Rovell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.503
Summary:

Sends excerpt of letter from Mr. Weekes [?] stating an hypothesis concerning electricity and clouds. Asks JH to test it. Sends own ideas about electricity as well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Dollond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0167; Reel 1087
Summary:

Suggests modifying square base of JH's telescope to round base. Estimates cost at £80 to £100.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 January [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.442
Summary:

Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Dollond
Date:
[4 January 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0140; Reel 1054
Summary:

Approves GD's modification of driving wheel [for JH's actinoscope]. But GD's cost estimate exceeds total R.S.L. grant of £100. JH cannot approve more than £70; must have funds left for optics and clockwork mechanism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.332
Summary:

Has taken a house in Bruges. Comments on some of his own recent work on stars. Strange reports in French newspapers of James South and his instruments. Does he know a cure for double vision? Sends drawing of a colored meteor. Has another paper by L. A. J. Quetelet on falling stars with which he disagrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Dollond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0168; Reel 1087
Summary:

Refuses to risk GD's funds by giving cost estimate for unusual telescope, especially if R.S.L. expects GD to pay for any expenses over estimate. Regretfully stops manufacture of telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.419
Summary:

Thanks JH for sending the verses he requested. His sister wishes she were still a neighbor of the Herschels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Richard
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.331
Summary:

Everyone loves JH's translation of [F. Schiller's] 'The Walk.' Discusses Shakespeare, literature, JH's literary endeavors, and translations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.115 (C: RGO 6.368.657 & LACC: RGO 6.503.244)
Summary:

Sending copy of GA's 'Tides and Waves' for Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; would be glad of JH's comments. Also encloses his eclipse paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 January 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.462.37
Summary:

Needs a good artisan to construct the framework of a solar spectrum photographic apparatus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[9 January 1843]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0430; Reel 1055
Summary:

Sorry to have caused trouble. Please send JH's 'description and sketches' to Peter Stewart at 65 Cornhill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project