| Description | He thinks his uncle will wish to see minutes of the committee meeting [for publishing William Herschel's papers] although they are confidential. The committee is keen to publish anything worth printing, specifically the biographical notes. Sampson would like the tour to be included and the Jacob [Herschel] letters should go in. He hopes that the service of Dr Dreyer will commend itself. He is keeping the two notebooks a little longer, but will return the tour. He asks for any other diary section that might leave the house, or he could come to look at it. [7 May] In a postscript he notes the arrival of William's letters and photograph, thinking that the committee might want something of the sort as a frontspiece, or perhaps the 20-foot [telescope] with William sitting up at the eyepiece. He sends the Athenaeum, gives family news and thanks his uncle for notes on 'my Knowledge "Hysterics" '. |