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rsCharles F. Adams
Cloudy and cold— Two hours of hoeing, to prepare my grounds for seedling
Stones, seeds nuts, and acorns. Planted a row of cherry stones across
the centre of the Summerhouse. Mr John Woods of Hamilton Ohio
about 20 miles west of Cincinnati, a member of Congress from 1825 to
1829. came with a recommendatory Letter from Mr Corwin
to Governor John Davis, which he
shewed me— There is a great water power in the town of Hamilton, and
Mr Woods has visited the manufactures at
Lowell with a view to ascertain the most effective means of managing
water power for the establishment of manufacturing mills. He is a member
of a company formed there for the purpose of prosecuting this
undertaking and is now about to return home— He wrote here and left with
me a Letter stating that he had been requested by the Citizens of
Hamilton and Roseville, Butler County, Ohio to invite me to visit them
on my tour through the State, which invitation I accepted if it may be
in my power— The State of Ohio is in the hands of the most unbridled
democracy— My promise to go to Cincinnati was rash, and unadvised and
has already involved me in engagements to visit places where I shall not
be welcome— And my arrears of correspondence with the preparation of an
Address oppress me to distraction— The Letters lent me by President Quincy are 1. from Joseph Cranch 30. Rosoman St.
Clerkenwell London on Septr 2. 1842 to
Professor Benjamin Peirce,
Cambridge—with enclosures from J.
Challis Professor at the Cambridge Observatory: Mr
Brisbane at Greenock. S.
Henderson, Observatory at Edinburgh. G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal at
Greenwich two. T. R. Robinson,
Armagh and J. F. W. Herschel,
Collingwood, all eminent astronomical observers. The Letters are all
advisory, and inclining to have the object glass and perhaps the
mounting done at Munich— The proposals of Troughton and Simms to construct an equatorial for
£1250 Sterling. Other Letters are from George
Merz opticus 30 June 1842 and 19 June 1843 from Professor
Airy 30 June 1843. speaking of a plan of the Pulkova observatory in the
Astronomische Nachrichten of Schumacher N. 290 and mentioning the doubts of the
durability of the famous German glass— There is a Letter from Le Rebours at Paris the mathematical
instrument maker proposing to construct an equatorial 9000 francs— Merz
says that a parallactically mounted Refractor is good only at the place
for which it is made, and cannot without great modifications be used
elsewhere— He claims payment of one third of the price in advance— The
instruments bespoken for the Washington Observatory are a Pulkova
Titanic equatorial—of 16 feet focus and 12 inch object glass— 2. A
transit for the Meridian 7 feet focus. Another for the prime vertical to
be made by Repsold at Hamburg 4.
a five feet mural circle 5 a 3 feet transit circle,—and a set of
magnetic and meteorological instruments— Cambridge is to have only the
Titanic.