My dear Father,

I have found the article— at least I believe so. The book I looked at in London was something different from the one in our Library & I think must have been the Monthly Review whilst this is the Monthly Magazine. It is a biographical sketch of E.D.. I have not read it but am having it copied. I saw something about a £100 promissory note given by Col. Pole to his wife, which I guess is the calumny.¹ I daresay I shall have the copy tomorrow.

Jackson has given me a copy of Eras. D.’s book about female education. Do you see the advertisement of the Miss Parker’s at the end— was it written as a puff of their school—& is’nt there some story of their being his natural daughters. I think old M^rs. Greaves of Cheltenham told us something about it.² Her letters to me are in the tin pedigree box in my bedroom, perhaps you might look at them.³

Bradshaw says he knows nothing of any letters of D^r. Okes’ in the University Library & so we shall not find them—⁴ The Provost of King’s was one of 23 children & so the letters may be in possession of the other 22 or their descendants—for the old fellow is over 80.⁵

Has a book come for me at Down, for I have received a post card forwarded from Down saying that a presentation copy of Thomson & Taits Nat. Philos. has been sent me.⁶ I shd. like to have it forwarded if it has come & to know at once if it has not.

I am very much pleased that Thomson sh^d. have thought me worthy of a copy.

I believe I have made a little astronomical discovery as to a correction which ought to be applied on taking observations of the Sun— I had never seen it in text books but I cdn’t conceive that it was new, until I found two astronomers here who had never heard of it. One of them a M^r. Knobel is going to ask a M^r. Marth who was the great Bessel’s assistant if it is known & to let me know.⁷ It would be very funny if I have really hit on anything new in such a very old subject—& moreover it is founded on such very simple considerations   I can’t however think it is new as yet.

If it is so, however I shall sent a note to a German Astron. Journal to try to stir up the German Astron^rs. to examine the Solar observations to search for the theoretical inequality in the Sun’s motion

I have begun doing arithmetic in my work & my first attempt (which is always wrong however) makes it look as though the results would fit to a T into what I thought might be the case & if they do I think my theory w^d. be almost established.

Your affectionate Son | G. H. Darwin