Will call on JH tomorrow. Has had a letter from Benjamin Gompertz.
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Will call on JH tomorrow. Has had a letter from Benjamin Gompertz.
Regarding JH's misunderstanding with George Dollond in the latter's quarrel with James South.
Unable to leave his wife. Has read about JH's purchases at Christie's.
No need for meeting of Correction Committee. Will be in town on Friday and hopes to meet him.
[Theophila] Gwatkin will accept Georgiana Babbage's invitation. Will set date after Gwatkin returns from Baylin. Asks CB to be trustee in JH's marriage settlement.
Will be having a meeting with the Gwatkins. Regarding becoming a trustee of JH's and matters appertaining to it.
Asks CB to to look very carefully into financial affairs relating to JH's impending marriage [to Miss Gwatkin]. Begs CB not to tell JH she has written.
Has had a visit from Mr. Cox. Regarding payment of carriage for parcel from Vienna. Will be visiting him on Tuesday.
Is glad he is coming on Tuesday. Regarding the parcel of books from Vienna. Recent experiments with mercury.
Would like to visit this week. Has had an attack of rheumatic fever. Gives tables of orbit of a comet.
Regarding barometric observations.
Regarding their chances of obtaining a professorship at Cambridge.
Would like to see him and discuss plans regarding his calculating machine.
Has had a letter from George Peacock. Regarding the Lucasian Professorship at Cambridge.
Regarding W. T. Brande's attack on Sir Joseph Banks, and its relation to the Council of the Astronomical Society.
Tells CB that JH has seen a calculating machine made by some 'rascally frenchman'.
Matters relating to his calculating machine.
Please forward enclosed note to Mrs. Roget [wife of P. M. Roget?]. Various items of interest.
Will not be able to pay a visit as children have whooping cough. Has been demonstrating his calculating machine. Hopes to see him at the Greenwich visitation.
Has had a letter from the Secretary of the Dijon Academy offering him and CB the title of Non-Resident Associate of the Academy. Is there any chance of seeing him in the near future?