Hopes all are well. Comments on Charles Babbage's latest book. Intends telling the truth about James Ivory's delusions. Sends proof that ten is an even number.
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Hopes all are well. Comments on Charles Babbage's latest book. Intends telling the truth about James Ivory's delusions. Sends proof that ten is an even number.
Returns a book of poetry. His family is at Hastings. Sends a theorem.
Does not like the sound of the bronchitis. Gives a remedy that he found effective. Gives one of his own ciphers.
Has been in a state of collapse all day, but a dose of '02H' has worked wonders. Gives anecdotes of Diogenes and Plato.
Did JH know when he was Master of the Mint that Isaac Newton had introduced a golden quarter-guinea? Most of his family are at Aldeburgh. Does he know Tristram Shandy's sense of proportion? Charles Babbage has become a public benefactor by the passing of the act against barrel organs.
Has a quarter sovereign given him by Thomas Graham. Will mention the coin in Notes and Queries. Gives a pun on his own name. Anecdote of rain in India when his father and mother were travelling.
Regarding the antiquity of the + and - signs. Origin of quid vides.
Hears that JH sits in his study with a stove. This is unhealthy for anyone with bronchial tendencies.
JH expressed himself with great precision in the old Discourses. Concerning one of the publications of the B.A.A.S.
Has long advocated the right to contract. Has no fear that the metrical system will become compulsory. American named J. W. Nystrom wishes to introduce a unit of 16. Comments on the Bible being 'every word of it is God's word.'