From Hensleigh Wedgwood to G. H. Darwin 1 September [1874]

My dear George

I wish you would read the inclosed (if I have not shewn it you before, and at any rate it is very much improved), which I believe you will find haud aliena à Scævolæ studiis. I mean to treat Geometry in the same way, but that is a much tougher job. I have just been looking at Jevons on Number and I flatter myself I have put the matter in a much clearer light than he has   What I am boggling at in Geometry is the passage from linear to superficial magnitude and the ultimate measure of the latter. But I think the evidence of the science may be put upon a proper fooling without a complete solution of every question

We shall not have much for our money at this place in the present year. Snow has gone off to Cornwall for a month with Hester Sterling & Hope is paying a visit of assistance of the same length to her friend Miss Stephen who is nursing her dying mother & we ourselves go to the North at the end of next week for a few visits

Affecty yours | H Wedgwood.

I hear your friend M^r Myers has been seeing startling things