Wishes to introduce an American friend, Professor Stephen Alexander, to JH.
Wishes to introduce an American friend, Professor Stephen Alexander, to JH.
Sending him local paper so that he can see how the Oxford news has been received. Corporation of Southampton has come into a legacy.
Sends him photograph of his godchild. Would like some lines from JH that he (the godchild) might keep.
Thanks for the gift of a book of verse.
Too busy to answer his last letter until now. His theorem on perspective is pretty and easy. Quotes one he uses. Has been busy finding the proof that every algebraic equation has a root. Has been organ tuning. Comments on the method of tuning using beats.
Is AD interested in the Lowndean Professorship at Cambridge?
Sending some examples of sensorial vision
Sending a magazine containing a notice of JH's paper on sensorial vision.
Describes lodgings taken in London; JH is working hard on his Physical Geography.
JH spent most of the day before in a meeting, and with a man selling an engraving of scientists of 1806.
Discusses B.A.A.S. business and asks for WW's views on some magnetic observations.