Questions EB's use of terms 'ponderable' and 'imponderable' matter in EB's almanac.
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Questions EB's use of terms 'ponderable' and 'imponderable' matter in EB's almanac.
Describes exactly the route JH took to get to the point where he made his drawings of the earth pyramids at Botzen.
Describes JH's search for a publisher of JH's Iliad translation. Sending a sample to [Matthew] Arnold. Hopes WW is better; feels very old.
Insists that artificial representations of capital-currency, checks, bills, titles, etc.-are not capital. Examines arguments on both sides of issue.
Asks WW to recommend JH's Iliad translation to Macmillan. Discusses possibility of publication of selections.
Just read [?]'s article on [John?] Blackwood. JH's views on effectiveness of [Robert] Peel's act and on relative roles of government and Bank of England in nation's economy.
Comments on a mathematics paper AD sent. Inquires about W. S. Jevons. Is still working on translation of the Iliad.
Thanks for sending [Charles] Graves's elegy on W. R. Hamilton, reflecting on Hamilton's great, 'high-souled,' 'enthusiastic' character.
Discusses recent progress in color photography. Stresses that what is most needed is a way of making negatives from which colored positives can be produced. Recounts JH's recent experiments relating to the action of light on solutions of platinum.
Acknowledges receiving a shipment.