BIB_ID
157573
Accession number
MA 3617
Creator
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, not before 1818.
Credit line
Gift of Maisie Kinnicutt Houghton (Mrs. James R. Houghton), 1979.
Description
1 item (5 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Address panel: "a / Monsieur / Monsieur Arrago / a L'Observatoire." Dominique François Jean Arago was a French scientist and politician; he entered the Paris Observatory as "secretary-librarian" in 1805 and became director of the institution in 1834, keeping this position until his death.
The paper is watermarked 1818.
There is a hole in the last page in the letter (possibly from the removal of the seal), leading to partial loss of text.
The paper is watermarked 1818.
There is a hole in the last page in the letter (possibly from the removal of the seal), leading to partial loss of text.
Provenance
Purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 15 June 1979.
Summary
Recalling meetings that she and her sisters had with him in Switzerland and France; remembering how he explained to them the "machinery & instruments at the observatory at Paris" and other discussions they had on scientific subjects; recalling his "warm approbation of our friend Captain Beauforts [possibly Francis Beaufort] Harmonica" and his inquiries about their father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth; introducing her brother, who is visiting Paris and is deeply interested in engineering and astronomy; describing her brother's accomplishments thus far; saying that any assistance offered him would delight her and her sisters Fanny and Harriet.
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