Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. (Juvenal) The poor wayfarer will sing in the presence of travellers

1 Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator. (Juvenal) The poor wayfarer will sing in the presence of travellers .

2 Vicar of Clifford

3 George Henry With

1History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson. First published 1759

2 See Letter 51

1 The journal Nature

2 Bumpus: J and E Bumpus, booksellers, Oxford Street

1 Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy 1804 -1878 English antiquary: ODNB

2 This could be the Queen Anne’s Bounty Office but its establishment was in 1704. Perhaps the office moved in the 19^th C. See Letter 17

3 Literary and Fine Art Auctioneers. Estbd 1750

1 The Penoyres

2 Lady Emily Harding was a relation of Thomas’s mother. She lived at Stratford on Avon. The families visited each other

3 This event is fully described by Francis Kilvert in his diary. See Letter 66

4 Frere, Sir (Henry) Bartle Edward, first baronet (1815–1884), colonial governor ODNB. Was Webb joking or did he or a neighbour know Frere? He did not attend

5 Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander 1799 –1875 Prussian astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances.

1 See Letter 5

2 See Letter 60

3 The blind organist at The Moor who also served the church at Hardwicke

4 See Letter 5

1 Nehemiah Wallington (1598 – 1658) was an English Puritan artisan (a wood turner) and chronicler. from Eastcheap. He left over 2500 pages and 50 volumes on himself, religion and politics.

1 From Tennyson’s Maud

1 “ Pereira: BAA Solar Section Memoirs the 3rd Rpt of the Section, 1893, there is the name J. De Moraves Pereira (Prof.), St Michael's, Azores. It was the A C Ranyard connection that set alarm bells ringing. I always associate him with solar work and it would seem that Prof. Pereira was an active observer of the Sun.It seems too great a co-incidence not to be this gentleman”. Thanks to Richard Baum for this information.

2 See Letter 88

3 See Letter 60

4 Von Werder: The name is given as Werder in accounts of the Siege of Strasbourg during the Franco-Prussian War.

5 Mrs Tudor: relation by marriage of Mrs Webb.

1 See Letter 27

1 From Franco-Prussian war 1870-71

1 Probably referring to Ranyard’s appointment as assistant secretary to the Eclipse Committee

2 B.F. Westcott and F.J.A. Hort set out to replace the Textus Receptus with a New Greek Text based on corrupt Alexandrian manuscripts in 1853. Published work 1881

1 Memoires d’l Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique

1 The Webbs had a niece who did copying etc. at the British Museum

2 Monthly Notices of the RAS

1 Reference to the effects of the Franco-Prussian war

1 Lockyer

1 Popular Science Review

2 See Letter 60

1 Reference to Col. Birch See Letter 60

1 Most probably the Chronicle containing details of Kenilworth Priory by John Strecche (fl.1407-25) given to John Webb by Charles Hansford of Woollas Hall, Pershore – a RC family. See John Webb Anecdotes. BL. Puttick & Simpson. Shelfmark: S.C.Puttick & Simpson. Catalogues for 1846 to 1967. There is a typescript index (1928) of sales 1846-70 at shelfmark: C.131.k.15.

1 Lindsay, James Ludovic, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres (1847–1913), astronomer and book collector, In 1874, with Gill and Ralph Copeland, he went to Mauritius to observe the transit of Venus. He was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878 and 1879, fellow of the Royal Society in 1878, and honorary associate of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1883.

2 Smyth

1 Beer and Mädler

2 Giovanni Cassini was a 17^th C Italian mathematician and astronomer. Giacomo Filippo Maraldi 1665 –1729) was an French-Italian astronomer and mathematician and the nephew of Cassini

3 See previous Letter

4 See Letter 86

1 Col. Birch See Letter 60

2 The Woolhope Club was founded in 1851 as the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club. Its interests cover the local history, archaeology and architecture of Herefordshire as well as natural history and geology

3 Legal term: friend of the court

4 Farm is Llanerchycoed on Little Mountain in Hardwicke

5 Owner of The Moor estate, Hardwick

1 Son of Vicar of Clifford

1 See Letter 106

2 Dr Rudolph Engelmann 1841-88 Observer at Leipzig. Webb wrote about his work on Double Stars in I.O. VIII. Webb commented that though Engelmann’s mean values were regularly cited on the whole they were drawn from very few observations.

3 Relation of John Webb

1 A device that "stores" static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of a jar. Invented 1744.Was used to conduct many early experiments in electricity

2 See Letter 5

1 See previous letter

1 Probably Sir George Stokes See Letter 39

2 James Breen pubd. 1854

1 Great Russell Street

1 See previous letter

2 Revd William Jones Thomas and his wife Annie Elizabeth, Vicar of Llanigon. Mentioned in Kilvert’s diary.

3 At the Ladies’ College, Cheltenham

1 Charles Edward Burton. 1846-82 Obit MNRAS

2 Francọis J. Terby. 1846–1911 Belgian astronomer.

3 See Letter 75

4 Rudolf Ottomar Meibauer 1836-78? Die physische Beschaffenheit des Sonnensystems [The physical condition of the solar system] Berlin 1872

1 Great Russell St.

1 In the Black Forest

2 1871-2 Persian famine is supposed to have killed 2 million people

3 Thomas Johann Seebeck 1770 –1831 a physicist b.Estonia of Baltic German family who in 1821 discovered the thermoelectric effect.

1 The Rhine Falls in Neuhausen in Switzerland near Schaffhausen are the largest waterfalls of Europe

2 See Letter 75

1 See Letter 4

2 Emmanuel Liais (1826–1900) was a French astronomer, botanist and explorer who obviously produced a heavy book!

3 Amédée Guillemin. Ed. By J. Norman Lockyer.The Heavens: An Illustrated Handbook Of Popular Astronomy.

1 Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner (1834 – 1882) German astrophysicist who studied optical illusions. He invented the Zöllner illusion where lines that are parallel appear diagonal.

2 See Letter 60

1 See Letter 60

2 Awake! It is day

1 Near Bath – home of Tudors, relatives of HMW’s uncle by marriage

2 Paternoster Row

3 The home – and observatory – of William Huggins. Huggins enlarged his observatory in November 1870 to accommodate a pair of fine telescopes by Howard Grubb of Dublin—one a 15 inch refractor and the other an 18 inch reflector—which could be mounted interchangeably on the equatorial base.

4 Sanford, John Langton, Studies and illustrations of the Great Rebellion, London, J.W. Parker and Son, 1858

1¹  Ormsby MacKnight Mitchell: The Orbs of Heaven: or, The planetary and stellar worlds London 1851. This was a considered a book for “juveniles” and went into several editions. It was quoted by Samuel Birley in his Earth not a globe (See Letter 35b )

1 Astronomische Nachrichten (Astronomical Notes), one of the first international journals in the field of astronomy, was founded in 1821 by the German astronomer Heinrich Christian Schumacher...

2 RAS secretary

1 Celestial Objects

2 See Letter 60

3 Alvan Clark

4 The Grubb telescope belonging to Huggins. See Letter 123

5 Thomas Grubb – father of Howard Grubb - built the Great Melbourne Reflector in 1862 (destroyed in the Mt Stromlo fire).

1 “Another replaces the one ripped off“ Virgil , Aeniad Bk. VI v.143.

1 Astronomische Nachrichten See Letter 120

1 Jeremiah Horrox or Horrocks (1617 - 1641)This English astronomer observed the transit of venus across the sun using the camera obscura, 24th November 1639. DNB

2 Col. Birch: See Letter 60

3 Rudolph William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of Denbigh, and 9th Earl of Desmond, (1823 - 1892)

4 See notes on Neighbours and friends

1 See Letter 60

2 Historical Collections of Private Passages of State, also known as the Rushworth Papers, covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 1600s by John Rushworth c. 1612- 1690

1 Two officers in the Webb family in the English Civil war supported different sides.

2 See notes on Webb family

3 Lockyer

4 See Letter 127

1 Possibly Alex Higgins since he is mentioned with Tupman in the next letter?

2 George Lyon Tupman 1838- 1922. best known for his work on the Transit of Venus 1874 MNRAS

3 Probably Dr. Terby

4 Ralph Copeland, (1837–1905), astronomer. ODNB

1 See previous letter

1William Frederick Denning 1848 –1931, British astronomer

2 Probably Professor Samuel John Lambert, New Zealand (elected to RAS in June 1873)

1 John Thurloe ( 1616- 1668) was a secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell

1 H. Ormesher of Manchester was quoted in a report on meteors in the Observing Astronomical Society in 1869 when he observed 14 meteors on the 9^th August. Further than that…?

1 Colonel Powell, a near neighbour

2 Rector of Dorstone – related to Col.Powell

1 Formal homily to the Churchwardens of the diocese

1 See Letter 60

1 See previous letter

2 Capt. William Noble 1828-1904 ODNB

1 Ranyard’s home

2 Aréographie Fragmente: Studies of Mars originally made by J.H Schrőter, re-discovered by Francois Terby in 1873 (or offered to him for sale by Scrőter’s grandson) Published eventually in 1881. See Letters 71 and 72

3 Secretary RAS

1 John Webb, Memorials of the Civil War in Herefordshire, ed. T.W.Webb. 2 vols. (London, Longman, Green & Co. 1879

1 See Letter 120

2 See Letter 81

3 See previous three letters

1 Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, 1688-1768, French astronomer

1 Home of Henrietta’s brother

2 See Letter 141 and subseq.

3 Samuel Dunn was a London mathematical teacher, author and publisher whose paper in the Phil. Trans. attempted to portray and analyse the black drop phenomena in the Transit of Venus 1769.

4 Probably William Thomas Denison 1804-1871 FRAS MN ODNB

5 See Letter 53

6 See Letter 81

7 Presumably Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1784 –1846) German mathematician & astronomer

8 Herschel

1 Probably Samuel Morley and Benjamin Lucraft, radical reformers

1 Col. Birch

2 A friend See Letter 32

3 Alfred Barry (1826–1910), principal of King's College, London.1868. Appointed bishop of Sydney and primate of the Church of England in Australia and Tasmania, and metropolitan of New South Wales 1884 ODNB See Letter 311.

4 William Thynne Lynn 1835-1912 MN

5 Similar to “to feel the pinch” -

1 Cousin of TWW

2 See previous letter when TWW has asked Ranyard to distribute the Military Memoir of Col. Birch

1 The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts was appointed under Royal Warrant in 1869 to make enquiries as to where manuscripts and private papers of historical interest were located and to report on their contents.

2 John Webb had amassed a large number of historical MSS [ borrowed, begged, but surely not stolen, from most of the country houses in Herefordshire JHR]

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