Is sending chemicals. Regarding Humphry Davy's experiments with azotane. Davy's paper on iodine.
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Is sending chemicals. Regarding Humphry Davy's experiments with azotane. Davy's paper on iodine.
Will be in town and requests addresses of shops where certain experimental apparatus can be purchased. Send [H. E.?] Roscoe's direction.
Has been working on analysis. Gives equations he has solved. Has met a mineralogist.
Their 'Analytical' has not been reviewed in the Edinburgh Review. Has married. Looking out for a situation. Gives an equation dealing with relative functions.
Comments on the equation sent by CB. Has been experimenting with potassium.
Sends equations in operational calculus.
Regarding CB's marriage. Possibility of a suitable situation for him.
Temper and stinginess of CB's father. Seeking job in mining through Mr. Champernowne, local mineralogist. Describes CB's elopement, marriage by former tutor, and new residence. Considered career in Church when CB had prospect of inheriting fortune from CB's father, but that is no longer possible. Gives an equation for discussion.
Praising CB's functional equations. How to become an F.R.S. Conditions at Slough. Hears that he is coming to live in London.
Thanking him for the paper on analysis. Has been to see Sir Joseph Banks. Hopes to see JH soon.
Has executed all of CB's commissions. Hopes to meet Charles Shadwell when in town. Is in the throes of exams. Thinking of taking up mathematics. Relates further chemical experiments.
Why hasn't he written? Further regarding Charles Shadwell's advice. Is preparing his paper on functions so that JH or William Herschel can communicate it to the R.S.L.
Invites JH, her godson, to sit for new likeness by same artist who drew him before. Cannot accept JH's mother's invitation to Slough.
Results of JW's exams. JH's advice in science was too modern to help. Reports local scandals among examiners. Not speaking to James Grahame. Going to 'Babylon' on Tuesday.
At home of student in highland moors along Nent River. Describes host family and barren surroundings. Greets all at St. John's. Asks about JH's chemistry lectures.
Encourages JH to come to visit; more about the study of law.
Thanks for essays JH sent; John Playfair was impressed by them. JG is writing material in favor of a Glasgow/Edinburgh canal.
JG to be a father, has bought a new house, and urges JH to marry.
Family news; encourages JH to read Jane Austen's novels.
Family and law business news.