My dear Father,

I send another batch of extracts which I found by looking thro’ the indexes to the Monthly Mag. for 6 or 7 years. There were a number of other references but they were only about his poetry & science & did not seem of interest.¹ I also send the enclosed from Prof. Mayor, but there is nothing new in it.²

I am very glad to hear that your visit to M^r. Rich was so prosperous & that you liked him.³

Leo & Horace⁴ come here today for the Sunday, its horrid cold weather for them.

I have been exceedingly unwell lately & have hardly done any work. These bitter winds have aggravated my cold & I have it in chest & throat as well as its more usual situation. I hope very much I shall be a little better for Glasgow.⁵

My work is not going nearly so swimmingly as I thought & I have a big difficulty, tho’ when I get thro’ it I fancy the results will be better than ever.⁶

The book wh. came was Thomson & Tait, but I am much puzzled. It is published by the Camb. Univ. Press & the copy has in it “From the Syndics of the C.U. Press”   I wrote to thank Thomson for it, which was something of a faux pas, if he did’nt give it me.⁷ But I am almost certain that it is as broad as its long & that they give presentation copies, the names of the persons being suggested by the authors.

It must have been Thomson who sent it to Down, otherwise it w^d. have come here

Yours affec | G H Darwin