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Planning to edit a volume of hexameter verse translations. Wishes to include JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.'
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Agrees to WW's request [that JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk' be included in WW's planned volume?]. Regrets missing [C. K. J.] Bunsen's speech. Busy editing N. L. Lacaille's catalogue.
Thanks for WW's Lectures on Systematic Morality. Announces the birth of another daughter [Francisca]. Working on Cape Results.
Presents a detailed discussion of the state of double star astronomy, including number known and number that are probably gravitationally linked. Gives an extended critique of WW's Lectures on Systematic Morality, arguing that WW's system is ultimately a happiness-of-mankind system and consequently rests on expediency considerations.
Responds to JH's argument that WW's system of morality rests on expediency considerations. Argues that it rests more on empirical considerations than JH recognizes.
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Pleased that WW is giving a paper at Southampton B.A.A.S. meeting. JH will attend. Has completed the printing of most of his Cape Results. Smoke-drifts are besetting Kent.
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Informs JH about WW's forthcoming collection of hexameter verse translations. Laments that the discovery of the new planet [Neptune] did not occur at Cambridge.
Gives WW permission to print JH's translation of 'The Walk' by Friedrich Schiller. Comments further on the acceptance of pentametric and hexametric verse by the English, and includes a few verses of JH's own. JH well along in having his Cape Results in print.
Gives corrections to the proof copy of JH's translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on the failure in England to discover the new planet [Neptune] and on his own and James Challis's role in the controversy that erupted.
Suggests final revisions to JH's hexameter translation of Friedrich Schiller's 'The Walk.' Informs JH of the other authors of verses in the volume.
Returns, with comments, proofs of WW's hexameter translation. Favors encouraging theoretical more than observational work regarding terrestrial magnetism.
Responding to a published statement by WW regarding the discovery of Neptune, JH presents in detail a different interpretation, giving more credit to U. J. J. Leverrier than WW favored. Suggests that some observatory make a photographic record of sunspots.