Thanks for JH's efforts on behalf of her son (Charles Babbage) on his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
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Thanks for JH's efforts on behalf of her son (Charles Babbage) on his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
Gives views of her son (Charles Babbage) on hearing of his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
His feelings on hearing of his being elected to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge. Regarding Joseph Clement and the work on his machine.
Regarding Joseph Clement and the work on his machine. Account of his recent excursions.
Giving news of the intentions of her son (Charles Babbage) and his experiences on his travels.
Regarding an anonymous letter concerning her son (Charles Babbage), which has appeared in The Record.
Unable to send the cutting from The Record yet. Will try to obtain it from her daughter. Views of friends on the attack.
Is sending the cutting.
Thanking him for refuting the attack on Charles Babbage.
Is taking her grandchild to Southend. Charles Babbage is at Berlin.
Has returned from Southend. Has letter from Charles Babbage in which he relates events and people met at the Berlin Academy.
Is expecting her son Charles Babbage home and would be pleased if JH would be there to meet him.
Letter of thanks for a copy of JH's thoughts on light.
There may be a delay in supplying the copy of her book on fishes as she has to wait for a sufficient number of subscribers.
Thanks for his generous letter and enclosures.
Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.
Went to see the bones of the mastodon last Friday. R. I. Murchison and W. H. Wollaston will be coming to Oxford on the 18 Feb.; can JH arrange to meet them there?
The Murchisons and Somervilles will be visiting him in February and he would be glad if JH would come and meet them then.
Regrets he was unable to dine with him on Monday. Regarding the secretary of the Astronomical Society. Will meet him at the R.S.L. on Tuesday.
Regarding the possibility of the Astronomical Society providing one or two pendulums. Remarks on pendulums. F. W. Bessel has been experimenting with pendulums.