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Robert Mitchell : [a mathematical paper]

'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy compagnons de voyage (for I came in the Mail from Moffat) were sunk in politics, post-horses, farming &c &c. I took out my friend's theorem, and leaving the base clod-hoppers to welter on among drains and dunghills and bullocks and balances of power -I entered Dumfries wholly disengaged from sublunary things; and well nigh perswaded that an angle [underscored twice]might [end underscore] be trisected'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Unknown

Robert Mitchell : 'theorems'

'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the purpose you mention. Mr Johnston, if I mistake not, is a small gentleman, whom it would be no honour to demolish.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Manuscript: Unknown

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