Letter from Hugh MacColl to Charles S. Peirce
(Boulogne-sur-Mer, 16.05.1883)

73 Rue Siblequin Boulogne-sur-Mer May 16 1883 Dear Sir, You will be glad to hear that our little boy is now quite out of danger and appears to be quite well again. I wish I could say the same about my wife; still, she too is much better than she was when I wrote to you last. She went out that day before yesterday in a Bath-chair —her first going out for more than eight months. I hope the coming warm weather will do much to set her up again. The beginning of her illness was a severe cold which the doctor who then attended

her culpably neglected as of no importance. I need not tell you how glad we shall be to make your acquaintance & that of your wife, who, I am glad to hear, is better. It will be a great pleasure indeed to me if you can stay a little while in Boulogne on your way to England. It is not often that I have the opportunity of making the personal acquaintance of my correspondents on logic & mathematics. I saw Mr. Miller the mathematical editor of the Educational Times, about 12 years ago, I made the acquaintance of Prof. Jevons last year, a short

time before his death; what a melancholy event that was! Mr. Venn called upon me a few months after. I also know Mr. Gr (?) a little. These four are the only ones of my correspondents in logic or mathematics whom I have yet seen. We have been in Boulogne now eighteen years. We have five of a family —four girls besides the little boy already mentioned. We live a very quiet life. My income, a very fluctuating & precarious one, is derived solely from my private teaching.

If this letter reaches Paris before your arrival there, I suppose it will await you there. I shall be glad to hear from you soon. Believe me yours faithfully, Hugh MacColl

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Proyecto de investigación "The Cosmopolitan Peirce: Cartas de C. S. Peirce en su quinto viaje europeo (2 de mayo-18 de septiembre 1883)"

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