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Hopes JH will stay for Sunday dinner at TY's before JH visits Dr. Litten. If so, please invite T. M. Brisbane and Francis Baily to join them. Writes formula TY discovered for discontinuous spectra. TY can now communicate with H. W. M. Olbers and T. J. Seebeck via H. C. Schumacher.
His feelings on hearing of his being elected to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge. Regarding Joseph Clement and the work on his machine.
Encourages JH's efforts in writing a treatise on sound. Asks JH's advice on a system of mineralogical classification that WW, as Cambridge's new professor of mineralogy, had drawn up.
Thanks for his generous letter and enclosures.
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Conveys the best thanks from the directors of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana for the liberal settlement over his article 'Light.' He will receive a fine paper copy of the encyclopaedia in due course.
Thanks for JH having been elected a Corresponding Associate of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences.
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Recently received telescope from the optician. Some adjustments are necessary. [Robert] Blair has a similar idea regarding telescopes. Asks JH to mention his idea to the Astronomical Society.
Health of JH's mother. Recommends History of George Godfrey. Asks if Waterloo, recently lost, was ship that 'C. White sailed in.' Gift for Wesleys. Letter from JH's aunt. Declining many invitations in order to continue star observations. Remembrances to the Grahames.
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Invites JH to London to meet a friend of JG.
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Gives views of her son (Charles Babbage) on hearing of his election to the Lucasian professorship at Cambridge.
Regarding letters from J. L. Tiarks concerning Saturn, and Dr. K. L. C. Rümker concerning J. C. Borda's pendulum at Parramatta.
Recent work and money expended on CB's machine. News of town. James South intends to sell his instruments.
JH's mother has been ill. Is JH coming into town?
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Attended meeting of the Astronomical Society and made observations of Saturn. Invites JH to dinner party. Activities at the Board of Longitude. Contacts with French scientists.