Will be in town and requests addresses of shops where certain experimental apparatus can be purchased. Send [H. E.?] Roscoe's direction.
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Will be in town and requests addresses of shops where certain experimental apparatus can be purchased. Send [H. E.?] Roscoe's direction.
At home of student in highland moors along Nent River. Describes host family and barren surroundings. Greets all at St. John's. Asks about JH's chemistry lectures.
JG to be a father, has bought a new house, and urges JH to marry.
Has been working on analysis. Gives equations he has solved. Has met a mineralogist.
Family news; encourages JH to read Jane Austen's novels.
Their 'Analytical' has not been reviewed in the Edinburgh Review. Has married. Looking out for a situation. Gives an equation dealing with relative functions.
Sends equations in operational calculus.
Temper and stinginess of CB's father. Seeking job in mining through Mr. Champernowne, local mineralogist. Describes CB's elopement, marriage by former tutor, and new residence. Considered career in Church when CB had prospect of inheriting fortune from CB's father, but that is no longer possible. Gives an equation for discussion.
Family and law business news.
Continues to encourage JH toward law and talks about some of JG's cases.
Invites JH, her godson, to sit for new likeness by same artist who drew him before. Cannot accept JH's mother's invitation to Slough.
Describes an oil lamp that makes efficient use of all the oil placed in it.
Thanking him for the paper on analysis. Has been to see Sir Joseph Banks. Hopes to see JH soon.
Why hasn't he written? Further regarding Charles Shadwell's advice. Is preparing his paper on functions so that JH or William Herschel can communicate it to the R.S.L.
Sends best wishes on JH returning to St. John's to teach; about books JG has read and some of his cases.
Upbraids JH for not writing, and announces the birth of his daughter, Anne.
Explaining his new theory of the atmospheres of the sun, planets, and stars.
Talks about the law, especially now that JH has begun his study of it.
Regarding the vacant post of Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge. Has heard that the works of Leonhard Euler are being reprinted. Would he obtain the return of one of CB's books from Mr. Higman.
Offering JH the position of assistant tutor at Michaelmas. [Draft from JH declining.]