THE PRINCES' HOTEL AND RESTAURANT
JERMYN STREET, LONDON, S. W.
Your two good letters, of the 14th and the 17th
have just come and the afternoon is all the brighter
for them. To escape that heat is almost worth
the price of a passage to this side. Your clothes
paragraph struck a responsive chord for I have
just succeeded, after prolonged mental agony, in
getting my new ones to fit. I am now cladable in
decent garments in the latest style. I am so proud
of them I am afraid they will sink in mid-ocean.
Speaking of which a new idea has just come to
me, which I hasten to instruct you of in case any-
thing should happen to me, which may it not! I
want all my mathematical papers, including the
present X investigation collected from all the
periodicals, etc., and published in a volume entitled
Papers on
Celestial Mechanics
and
Celestial Physics
Vol. 1
by
P. L.
printed in large type so as to fill a fair-sized book. Voila! As you know I gave up the semi-alluring polar trip—it was too long and too touristy and crowded to suit me—and am now looking forward to a more congenial one, the trip homeward. Indeed I mean to be on the water before these lines have reached the other side. They are confided to
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