TALBOT3865

29 Eaton Place. ¹
27 Feb. 1835.

My dear Sir

I merely write this to say that even when the roots of the equation you refer to are imaginary, the solution of the problem is not illusory. There is an example of this kind in Legendre’s 3^rd Supplement. ²

Yours very truly
J W Lubbock

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London February twenty eight 1835 Howard Elphinstone ³
H F Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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H. F. Talbot Esq^r
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham