Regarding a suitable length for the proposed metric system. Hopes the metrical people will continue to agitate.
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Regarding a suitable length for the proposed metric system. Hopes the metrical people will continue to agitate.
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.
Comments on metrification.
Returns a book of poetry. His family is at Hastings. Sends a theorem.
Comments on some mathematical problems; asks if AD knows about a German geometer by the name of [Bernhard] Riemann; suggests some new names for trigonometry.
Comments on health of family, and on parliament considering a bill to change weights and measures.
Comments on the state of JH's health; about ciphers and about decimalization.
Does not like the sound of the bronchitis. Gives a remedy that he found effective. Gives one of his own ciphers.
Comments on remedies suggested by AD [see AD's 1864-7-15]; on 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.
Comments on minting of coins [see AD's 1864-8-18], the state of JH's health, and the need for an elocution teacher for one of JH's sons.
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.
On algebraic signs, riddles, and the state of JH's health.
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.'
Longs to hear from AD; comments on JH's health and on the weather.
The winter has not killed them, though his wife is a convalescent. Knows Mr. Peters as he is a member of the Athenaeum. Airy has fun in him and a love of Greek Drama. Charles Babbage and James South are at war again. Sends jokes.