From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[12 August 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.162
Summary:
Comments on JH's health, and on items that are to go into JH's Familiar Lectures.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Comments on JH's health, and on items that are to go into JH's Familiar Lectures.
Thanks for letter. Has just turned 60 himself. Does not like the sound of the bronchitis. Wife thanks him for the pamphlet on Force. It is a dreadful puzzle. Philosophers must deny the existence of things they do not understand. Family members are at Walmer. Gives examples of mistakes being copied. Encloses two riddles.
Thought that JH and Charles Babbage were of the same year, but Cambridge Calendar shows differently; can JH solve the puzzle? Visited H. Crabb Robinson yesterday who gave him some sonnets that had been addressed to Wordsworth. Regarding the 1st edition of the Eikon basilike. Reason for Sir James South's knighthood.