Sending a proposition which he thinks will be worth his notice.
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.
Sending a proposition which he thinks will be worth his notice.
Will allow more pages for the text of JH's Telescope.
Concerning the publication of JH's Telescope.
Questions concerning the manuscript of JH's Telescope. Will send proofs to London.
Receives additions to JH's Telescope.
[Form letter] Announces 4 June visitation of Royal Observatory by Board of Visitors.
Intends to stand for the University of Cambridge and would be pleased to receive his vote and interest. [Note on JH's reply: Shall have his vote; in any case will not vote against him.]
Would be grateful if JH would allow his name to be added to AH's Committee.
Would like JH's support for his candidature for the R.S.L.
Will bring down his R.S.L. form to Collingwood. Regarding the phonetics of Hindustani.
His letter and accompanying packet arrived for which accept his best thanks for the valuable contribution to the literature of physical geography. Is gratified by JH's commendation of his own Physical Atlas.
Many thanks for the dates for the memoir of George Peacock. Queries the name of his father. Comments on various church matters.
Many thanks for the information. Finds that George Peacock wrote a book entitled the Measurer. Someone has sent him a geometrical question with abominable diagrams.
Sends a riddle. Has added a stanza. Does not credit the story of [T. C.?] Jansen's children. Comments on Roger Bacon's telescope.
Hopes he is well as he has not heard from him for a long time. Sends his own theories regarding the composition of force.
Did his work on the Southern Constellations bring him into contact with a Frederic Houtmann? Regarding a manuscript stated to be by Galileo.
Regarding one of JH's riddles. Sees he must write an article on Frederic Houtmann. Will be glad of the information on Galileo.
What does he make of the accompanying quotation from Amerigo Vespucci?
Thanks for his pamphlet; will comment on it later when he has properly read it. Regarding Maine de Biran and his philosophy. Gives some of his own theories.
Is suffering from the heat. Was grateful for his information on Galileo's handwriting. Outlines the facts of the recent controversy on a reputed manuscript of Galileo. Will be moving house shortly.