Edinburgh
June 2 1875
My dear Sir
I have your letter just as I am starting on a tour of inspection of schools.
Your paper <1> was presented on the 17th – subsequently reported on by me in the Courant & is now I presume in the printers hands
Have you seen “The Unseen Universe”? <2> (Tait & Co the authors – who the Co are is not exactly known as yet
Yours Try
Philip Kelland
[envelope:]
H.F. Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. WHFT, ‘Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots’. Read on 17 May 1875. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, v. 27 pt. 3 (1874–1875), p. 303.
2. Prof Peter Guthrie Tait (1831–1901), Scottish mathematician and B. Stewart, The Unseen Universe or, physical speculations on a future State (London, Edinburgh: 1875).