From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[8 October 1821]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0515.5; Reel 1053
Summary:
Windy passage across Channel. Will arrive home in two days.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Windy passage across Channel. Will arrive home in two days.
Expects to be home in one week. May be delayed at Calais by astronomers' trigonometrical operations. JH's and Charles Babbage's excursion from Berne to foot of Alps. Visited [P. E.] Fellenberg at Hofwyl.
Provides a detailed critique of a mathematical paper by [J. M. H.] Wronski, which JP presented on Wronski's behalf to the R.S.L. Suggests that JP urge Wronski to withdraw the paper.
Is glad he is coming on Tuesday. Regarding the parcel of books from Vienna. Recent experiments with mercury.