Sends proof of Bank's article on gold coinage. Tell HC of any corrections that JH may want.
Sends proof of Bank's article on gold coinage. Tell HC of any corrections that JH may want.
Printer can still include JH's corrections to article [on gold coinage], but not JH's enclosed letter to the Times.
Sends copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy.
Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'
Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.
Has JH seen R. A. Proctor's theory regarding the Milky Way?
Has he heard about the resignations of the Assistants at the Paris Observatory? Further regarding the present situation at the Paris Observatory.
Is sending extract of a letter [included] received from R. L. J. Ellery, Melbourne[deals with observations of Eta Argus].
News of her sons. Has sold many of her photographs. Husband is in Ceylon.
Sends a copy of the Graphic. Is grateful for JH's letter to her son.
Has made a mistake in the lease. Will fall in with any suggestion of JH.
Reply to FC's 1870-2-8.
Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.
Advice and guidance on the path he is to pursue when he goes to university.
Thanks for his kindly advice. News of his own progress.
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.
Prospects for investment in Great Eastern Railway for JH's son William.
Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.
Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.