Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.
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Advice on how to start a Friendly Society. Calculated the sun's pull on the Earth.
Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.
Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
More details of the benefit society.
Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.
Is working on tables A and B. Further regarding Charles Ansell's life tables.
Has JH received Thomas Maclear's observations on Encke's comet?
Sending a notice, which JH may be pleased to see, though he suspects the subject did not fall into able hands.
Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.
Sends a small College album of poems and snaps. Wishes JH would visit him at Bruges as they have ample room to entertain him. Hopes to publish meteorological observations kept by his grandfather, father, and himself. Comments on Saturday moons and wet and windy weather. Is he working on changes in the apparent magnitude of stars?
Congratulations on JS's new position at Bank. Received JS's account from Malta of comet. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Eneas Mackintosh promised to procure job as 'writer' in India for Willy. News from India and Europe. Teaching Latin to Alexander and three oldest daughters.
No summary available.
Reacts strongly to substantial errors in unauthorized biography of JH. Suggests it be burned. [JH annotation: 'Not sent. Answered none of their letters and refused to take in 2 or 3. A regular piece of French insolence.']
Sending papers on actinochemistry (photography). Discusses [James] Forbes's viscosity theory, nebulae of Southern Hemisphere, great refractor at Collegio Romano, and Lord Rosse's telescopes.
Has not heard from Thomas Maclear [see GA's 1844-3-12]; has the Cape equatorial object glass been dealt with?
Comments on the large number of stars identified in one square degree of sky.
Please reseal letter and send to TL, who will investigate JH's complaint.
Regarding Cape Town telescopes. Has written to Thomas Maclear for observations on Encke's comet.