Letter from Robert Potts to Sampson Low
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line 1: Trinity College
line 2: Cambridge
line 3: November 17 1862
line 4:
line 5: Dear Sir
line 6: I have just received
line 7: the last Number of the
line 8: Publishers Circular which
line 9: comes regularly every two weeks.
line 10: I venture to bring under
line 11: your notice the fact of
line 12: my Editions of Euclid
line 13: having been pirated byPage 2
line 1: Mr Todhunter a fellow of St John's
line 2: College - and published by
line 3: Messrs Macmillans.
line 4: Any one on comparing the
line 5: work of Mr Todhunter with
line 6: my School & University Editions
line 7: will see at once from
line 8: what quarters he has
line 9: taken the materials for
line 10: his book. He has not
line 11: only taken my mode of
line 12: arranging the demonstrationsPage 3
line 1: with no difference, of arranging the
line 2: first word of each step in a
line 3: vertical line down the page,
line 4: but has adapted the
line 5: same type & style of printing
line 6: as the University Edition.
line 7: Almost all the Geometrical
line 8: sources are taken from my book.
line 9: He has put his work out at
line 10: 3/6 – what he could do when
line 11: he wrote his materials from
line 12: books which put out
line 13: at 4/6 & 10/- the published price.Page 4
line 1: It is rather irregular that he
line 2: should have done this just at
line 3: the close of the late International
line 4: Exhibition.
line 5: The favourable opinions before
line 6: expressed of my works have been
line 7: followed by the award of a medal
line 8: by the jurors of Class 29, "for
line 9: the excellence of R Potts' works
line 10: in Geometry"
line 11: I remain Dear Sir
line 12: Yours very faithfully
line 13: R. Potts
line 14:
line 15: Mr Sampson Low