From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[24 March 1841]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:194
Summary:
On mode of conveyance of WH's sister's verses and the autographs for JH's acquaintance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
On mode of conveyance of WH's sister's verses and the autographs for JH's acquaintance.
Requests autographed copy of WH's sister's poems, wanting to send them to an acquaintance who translated some of JH's work. Expresses a theory about cause and effect. Mentions minutes of Royal Irish Academy, a reform of the constellations, and WH's three axes of the universe.
Considering motion as a 'successive excitement of powers.'