31 Sackville St <1>
Friday
Dear Sir
I could undertake to translate Abel’s demonstrn <2> but as it extends to 20 quarto pages, it might be rather expensive to have it printed, at least in a separate form –
Believe me
Yours very Truly
H. F. Talbot
Notes:
1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
2. Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), mathematician. ‘Remarques sur quelques propriétés générales d’une certaine sorte de fonctions transcendantes’, Journal für die Reine und angewandte Mathematik v.3 n.4 (1828) pp. 313 – 323. edited by August Leopold Crelle (1780–1855), German mathematician.