Letter of Benjamin Peirce to Augustus De Morgan
(Washington, 17.06.1870)

Free To Professor A. De Morgan etc - etc - etc - U. S. Coast Survey OFFICIAL BUSINESS. Supdt London From Professor Benjamin Peirce of the U. S. of America to introduce his son Charles S. Peirce Esq.

To Professor Augustus De Morgan etc - etc - etc - U. S. Coast Survey Office Washington 17/6/1870 My Dear Sir - I presume upon the unseen1 brotherhood of science to introduce to you my son Charles S. Peirce Esq. who is a devoted student of Logic and I think that he has original thoughts which you may regard as deserving your consideration. He carries with him a memoir which he has written upon one of the subjects of your own learned investigations and also one which his father has written upon Linear Algebra and which was not

printed without a careful perusal of this [?] and [of a]2 previous treatise upon the same subject, which was printed by yourself in the Memoirs of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. My son is now my private3 and confidential aid in my most important investigations in the U. S. Coast Survey, and I sincerely commend him to your favorable notice Very respectfully and with great admiration Yours truly Benjamin Peirce Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey

Nota

1. Grattan-Guinness lee "universal".

2. Grattan-Guinness advierte "to ease the difficulties caused by his vile handwriting, two apparently missing words were added in square brackets". "Peirce between Logic and Mathematics" (Studies in the Logic of Charles Sanders Peirce, N. Houser, D. D. Roberts y J. van Evra eds., Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1997, p. 42 n. 22).

3. Max Fisch lee "associate", pero nos parece -siguiendo a Grattan-Guinness- mejor la lectura "private".

Transcription by Max Fisch, Peirce Edition Project

Proyecto de investigación "La correspondencia europea de C. S. Peirce: creatividad y cooperación científica (Universidad de Navarra 2007-09)

Fecha del documento: 21 de octubre 2008
Última actualización: 14 de septiembre 2017