From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georgiana Babbage
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.367
Summary:
Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Announcement of Baden Powell's election to the Savillian chair of Geometry.
Urges JH to miss the next R.S.L. Council meeting, as many friends have been to see Charles Babbage, and are proposing to make the meeting difficult. GB suggests that JH remain at Slough because of his mother's illness.
Thanking him for his letter and giving him news concerning the recent death of her father-in-law.
Views as to whether her husband would be interested in applying for the professorship at Oxford.
Regarding support for Charles Babbage at Oxford.
Gives JH news of Charles Babbage's plan to apply for the Savilian chair of mathematics at Oxford.