Is glad that J. C. Maxwell has received the Aberdeen Professorship. Has forwarded 'your last' to the Principal. Is feeling better, but still needs crutches.
Is glad that J. C. Maxwell has received the Aberdeen Professorship. Has forwarded 'your last' to the Principal. Is feeling better, but still needs crutches.
JH's Essays [Essays Q.E.R.] has reached Lowestoft, but AS has been too ill to read them. Sends regards to family.
Writes to point out an error in a pamphlet he had written. Discusses plans for upcoming trip to the north.
Thanks JH for translation of Iliad. AS's health has been poor. Invites the Herschels to Norwich.
JH's daughter Maria is getting married. JH has been ill. The Iliad translation is almost finished.
Thanks AS for his letter. Offers congratulations to newly married Maria Herschel. Will be returning to Cambridge to give his 46th course of lectures.
Asks that AS show JH's son Alexander around Norwich when he arrives there. Reflects on changes in geology. Has finished hexameter Iliad translation.
Eyesight is failing. Discusses William Whewell's death and pays him tribute. Says Professor [W. H.] Thompson will replace Whewell.
Has printed a Memorial about Norwich. Discusses this pamphlet. Has been ill. Discusses solitude and says almost none of his friends are still living.
Wilberforce Clarke, the nephew of an old friend, has been appointed to a meteorological observatory. He needs a list of useful books and instruments for his job from JH.
Praises AS for commencing his fifty-second course of lectures at age 84. Laments his own frailty. Recommends an array of meteorological books . Lists 'useful' meteorological instruments. Mentions family matters.
Asks various questions about P. S. Laplace's nebular hypothesis and about Auguste Comte's discussion of it. AS comments: 'Your Father and you have given ample materials for observations for a 1000 years to come.'
'Delighted' to hear that JH is in 'such good spirits.' Has been giving regular class lectures.
Disappointed not to have seen Sir Harry Smith or JH's family while AS was in Norwich. Grateful for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on this 'grand harvest,' a monument to William Herschel's honor. JH is 'now again a free man.'
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.