Has a copy of J. R. Young's investigation. Gives one of his own theorems.
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Has a copy of J. R. Young's investigation. Gives one of his own theorems.
His strength is improving. The Airys are off to Bilboa.
Is he thinking of letting Francis Baily's house at Tavistock Place as he knows someone who is desirous of renting it. Was able to walk two miles at a quick pace yesterday. Rest of his family are at the seaside.
Knew he would get a speedy answer. Quick, the Bristol bookseller, has sent him an edition of Francis Walkingame's Arithmetic. Thinks JH is right to sell Francis Baily's house. G. B. Libri may wish to buy. His puns are unavoidable. Hopes JH will have his house valued.
Thanks for the newspaper cutting repudiating his wisdom on weather matters. Has had erroneous charges laid at his own door. What arms has he taken?
Sending a moral song. Sent one to W. H. Smyth.
Can JH come in on Sunday evening? Where do the authors of drinking songs get their facts?
Thanks for his article on the telescope. Comments on this. Sends another extract from a drinking song. Hopes that G. B. Airy will be the next president of the R.A.S.
Is pleased JH can look his trial in the face. Regarding logic. Has seen a neat construction by JH's son.
Has heard of the heavy blow that has fallen on the Herschels [death of JH's daughter Margaret Louisa]. Hopes they are all bearing up.
Many thanks for his new projection of the sphere. J. L. Lagrange has two papers of 1779 on the subject. John Lee elected president at the R.A.S. He himself has resigned from the council.
Has not heard from him for a long time. Did he receive his red and black logarithms? JH's son Alexander has sent him a mathematical problem. George Bishop has died and the observatory and instruments are to be sold. Sends two riddles. Sees that JH has proved that the sun is liquid fire.
Sends a sonnet on the comet. Regarding works on spheroidal triangles. Supposes he may use the Feldhausen anecdote. Regarding the law of facility.
Has sent the packet of letters written to Francis Baily to Greenwich, but kept back one or two including the one on the R.S.L. Secretaryship. Is told that James South is now suffering from deafness. Has sent a paper on errors of observation to Cambridge. Comments on this.
Regarding the unsuitableness of the weather for astronomers. Sends an answer to one of JH's equations. Regarding the quarrels of Sir James South. Sends some nursery rhymes that seem appropriate.
Sent his paper on probabilities a few days ago. Shows how his own method is different from that of L. A. J. Quetelet. Sends a poem.
Many thanks for the hexameters. Comments on these and the meter of English poetry.
Many years ago JH had said his time was nearly up; now he is doing it again. Hopes it is a good omen. Regarding Greek hexameters and English translations of heroic poetry.
Is meditating on a paper on the infinity of magnitude. Does he recollect a paper by J. J. Sylvester on the passage of a bullet in a gun barrel?
Suspects that J. J. Sylvester and JH agree in their theories. Is inclined to agree with them as his third paper on logic shows. Has read JH's book and will return it soon. Has 30,000 life policies to calculate.