1877 June 18
Your letter which came today gave me great comfort of the most substantial kind and it is a great pity that I must hurry over to Hoboken at such a rate that I
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Your letter which came today gave me great comfort of the most substantial kind and it is a great pity that I must hurry over to Hoboken at such a rate that I |
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cannot fully answer it today. I thank you deeply for the advance you promise me which will put me at my ease while I get some papers into print, which will repay me. Meantime, I must see that in return —such return as I can make— I turn you out a fine report of my Geneva-Paris-Berlin-Kew-Hoboken
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work & I think it will be allowed to have some merit. The Paris computations are now far enough advanced for me to say that they look better than the Geneva ones.
I will send on the bills as you desire. The Stevens Institute sends me an unconscionable bill, charging much more time than actually given, & charging 60 cents an hour for the commonest labor. The bills pass |
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through the hands of the Engineer but this one was sent sealed so that he should not see it. They see that I am in a position to put up with everything & pile it on without scruple. Oh it is not so large a sum but enormous for the work done.
I will make a point of sending tomorrow an account of the sums to be paid, because, relying on what I supposed to be the intention, to let me have the advance you did till June 30, I have paid out the money & now Porter will not allow the same advance |
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and I positively haven't enough to keep me above two days. I shall have to draw upon him for something.
Yours devotedly C. S. Peirce |
Transcription by Sara Barrena (2017)
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Proyecto de investigación "La correspondencia del tercer viaje europeo de Charles S. Peirce (septiembre-noviembre 1877)"
Fecha del documento: 2 de febrero 2017
Última actualización: 17 de agosto 2017
