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Rh 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 121