From G. H. Darwin 4 March 1880
Trin. Coll Camb.
Mar 4. 80
My dear Father,
If the M.S be sent registered to me I will begin the copying at once as I can borrow a machine here.1 I have just finished the paper at wh. I am at work & shall have time & ought to get it done in a fortnight or so.
Leo. will have told you that we paid him £50 for which he agreed to exhaust London resources, but he has been outside his contract & has got the wills at Lincoln searched.2 Do you think of giving more; I suspect he wd. accept if it were done delicately. What a lot of work he must have spent.
I have been having a bad cold in my head & somewhat on my chest but have got thro’ so far rather better than usual as I have only been languid & stupid & have continued doing a little work. I fear however the later stages more than the active nose-blowing.
As I said above I have just finished off my paper & shall send it to the R. S in the day or two. I am glad to say it will be short eno’ for the Proceedings3
We are getting on with the pendulum but have been delayed by finding the stone pillar is not isolated from the floor & so have been having the paving up & have got bricklayers & carpenters at work4 I hope we shall get to work again in a day or two.
Last Sunday I observed a little & thought the thing wobbled when cabs drove along a street 60 yds away— this proves its sensitiveness but does’nt look very hopeful for our doing anything in a town.
I can’t remember whether I told you that Sackville Cecil & I propose going down to Glasgow together after Easter. I’m sorry to say he’s got another railway place & is not going to come here after all.5
I enclose a pleasant letter of McLennan’s which gives a better account of things at Davos. I hope they will adhere to the scheme of coming to Hayes.6
I’m sorry to hear that you are knocked up & I hope going to London will do you good7
I find these incessant colds very disheartening, it is now many months that I have had more or less of a break down every 10 days & it never gives one time to get into good order between whiles.
I shall be tremendously interested with Col. Chester’s papers.
Yours affectionately | G H Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Darwin, George Howard. 1880. On the analytical expressions which give the history of a fluid planet of small viscosity, attended by a single satellite. [Read 18 March 1880.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 30 (1879–80): 255–78.
Darwin, George Howard. 1907–16. Scientific papers. 5 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Writes on family matters and researches.
Mentions construction of a pendulum
and completion of a paper he will send to the Royal Society.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12510
- From
- George Howard Darwin
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 210.2: 82
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12510,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12510.xml