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Rec. Oct. 6 1875
5 Oct., 1875 My dear Sir It surprises me to learn today that you have been in Paris for some time. I have also been here since the 10th September & would have given a great deal to have seen you, especially because I learn that you were well received by Leverrier. As for me, I addressed him a letter on the 28th & have received no reply so that it will be necessary to proceed through diplomatic |
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channels. Don’t mention this in England, if you please, but if you have any occasion to write to Leverrier speak as if it were a matter of course that I would swing my pendulums at the observatory. If you will do that you will put me under a particular obligation. It would be a pity that I should swing in England, Berlin, Geneva the chief initial points of pendulum operations & not at Paris where the older determinations were made. The international geodetical conference having been here, I don’t understand how I went to all the sittings after I
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arrived and didn’t see you, nor hear of you. I suppose everybody thought I knew you were here.
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Transcription by Max Fisch (Peirce Edition Project), revised by Sara Barrena.
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Proyecto de investigación "Charles S. Peirce en Europa (1875-76): comunidad científica y correspondencia" (MCI: FFI2011-24340)
Fecha del documento: 7 de mayo 2013
Última actualización: 17 de septiembre 2013
