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Is unable to be of assistance to JH in the matter of a military appointment.
About JG's intended marriage.
Has briefly come into London on distressing business.
Will be pleased to breakfast with him tomorrow, but must leave before ten in order to keep an appointment.
Would like him to accept a small work on the analysis of force.
Would like to see him at dinner tomorrow.
Arrangements for the 12th suits him well, and looks forward to staying with him.
Would be very pleased to spend a day with him before his return.
Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.
Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.
Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.
Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.
Where can he obtain details of F. W. Bessel's experiments to which JH refers? Comments on experiments with pendulums.
Would like his opinion on one of the experiments of Isaac Newton, described in the Principia. Has this experiment ever been repeated?