Sending a query regarding the colors seen on clouds at sunset.
Sending a query regarding the colors seen on clouds at sunset.
Is supplying JH with copies of his missing journals [see JH's 1869-1], and will send more later.
Received [?]'s paper no. 10, which completes JH's collection. Returns duplicates of [?]'s papers on Kew and Nerchinsk 'disturbances' and on 'Residual Laws of disturbance.'
Obtained and sent JH 2 copies of Physique sociale. Thanks JH for observations but they are too scientific for his lectures.
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Thanks JH for his letters to her mother (Mary Somerville), who is not well enough to write. Describes eruption of Vesuvius.
Has today sent by book post the manuscript of Mrs. Mary Somerville's autobiography, which JH is to report on. Understands that Mrs. Somerville is amenable to good advice.
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Sends Mary Somerville's autobiography; visited her in Naples. JP will return to England in the summer.
Receives Mary Somerville's autobiography; explains poor health will prohibit him from detailed scrutiny of the writing.
Has been requested by the relatives of the late W. R. Hamilton to write a memoir. Would be glad if JH would send him any suitable letters of Hamilton in his possession.
Many thanks for sending the seeds of Wellingtonia. Has two Cryptomerias also grown from seed. Was much interested in Alexander's lecture.
Agrees with him about the impossibility of sending W. R. Hamilton's letters by post. Thinks the best plan would be to send them to his brother at the Athenaeum, who will bring them to Ireland.
Comments on some incorrect attributions to JH.
Expresses thanks for receiving the 1868 volume of the Transactions of the Society of Engineers.
Comments on WJH's appointment as judge in India. Contrasts legal practices in England and India. Reviews calamities WJH witnessed in India. Alexander Herschel is lecturing about eclipse at Royal Institution and Leamington. Family news. P.S.: Please write to W. E. Hearn in Melbourne regarding Hearn's book Government of England.
Package of letters has arrived safely via the Globe Parcel Express Co., for which accept his best thanks. Would like a page or two of JH's recollections of W. R. Hamilton if possible. Has sent a pamphlet on William Wordsworth and the Lake Country.
Does JH have any letters from H. C. Oersted to lend to Oersted's daughter for publication?