Red Lion Court, Fleet St
May 3
Sir,
I was happy to be favoured with your approbation of my new undertaking, the “Scientific Memoirs,” 1 and your suggestion with regards to Fresnel’s 2 writings, and the journals of Crelle and Gergonne. 3
I am making progress with a first Part, & hope to obtain more advice & materials as I proceed. Mr Lubbock 4 informed me that probably you might favour me with Abel’s 5 proof of the Impossibility of Solving Equations of 5 Dimensions.
I must depend much on the advice of my Friends as to the policy of giving much pure Mathematics. My aim is to make the work really useful, & at the same time just sufficiently popular to support itself permanently.
I am, Sir, with many thanks,
Yours, most respectfully <sic>,
Richard Taylor
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