Is sending a pamphlet. Has given the profits of his recent book to various universities.
Is sending a pamphlet. Has given the profits of his recent book to various universities.
Is grateful for his courteous criticism of his research into Aboriginal dialects. Casts have been made of the heads of several of the aborigines.
Has sent a copy of his book on color to the R.S.L. library and would be glad of JH's comments on it.
Thanks for the gift of the paper on color. Comments on this and the subject in general.
Is grateful for the paper and comments. Has referred to JH's papers many times in the lectures he has given. Hopes to produce a cheap book on color.
Is glad he is reconsidering the question of temperature. Regarding the deep sea thermometers.
Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.
Has not heard from him for a long time. He himself has been suffering with debility. Has done no maths. Is moving at midsummer to a new house at Merton Road.
On AD's and JH's illnesses; asks AD about Latin verses of the medieval period.
Regarding middle Latin poets and similar English ones. Hopes JH's health improves with the advent of Spring.
Delayed answering JH's letter. Describes new baby son [Thomas?]. Thanks Margaret Brodie Herschel for note.
Recommends artisan to restore portrait of William Herschel. [Henry] Hardcastle and wife [Maria Sophia Herschel] visited TW's lodgings, lately occupied by [Thomas] Wade and wife [Amelia Herschel].
Acknowledges receipt by Harvard College Observatory of JH's 'A Synopsis of all Sir William Herschel's Micrometrical Measurements...' (1867).
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