From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[8 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.332
Summary:
Regarding financial affairs. Is having trouble with his eyes. Has done little of late.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Regarding financial affairs. Is having trouble with his eyes. Has done little of late.
Thanking him for his book [probably Passages in the Life of a Philosopher].
Gives CB permission to publish the portions of letters requested by him. JH tells CB that he has responded to John Davy's letter in the PM.
Is returning the trust deed duly signed. A list of his papers was printed in an American periodical. Hopes his yachting improved his health. He is suffering from bronchitis. Trouble with the Irish.
News of the forthcoming marriage of his daughter. Everyone seems to be mad on making ice.
Invitation to attend the wedding of JH's daughter Amelia.