od.

"I would recommend that Such Gentleman Change his business

"And appropriate his time and attention to a Sunday School to Learn what he
Could and keep the Litle Children form durting their Close

"With Sincere feelings of Gratitude for your weakness and Inability I am

"Sir your Superior in Mathematics ----"

"1849 June th29."

"Dor Morgin Sir

"I wrote and Sent my work to Professor ---- of ---- State of ---- United
States

"I am now in the possession of the facts that he highly approves of my
work. And Says he will Insure me Reward in the States

"I write this that you may understand that I have knowledge of the unfair
way that I am treated In my own nati County

"I am told and have reasons to believe that it is the Clergy that treat me
so unjust.

"I am not Desirous of heaping Disonors upon my own nation. But if I have to
Leave this kingdom without my Just dues. The world Shall know how I am and
have been treated.

"I am Sir Desirous of my
"Just dues ----"

"1849 July 3."

"July 7th, 1849.

"Sir, I have been given to understand that a friend of mine one whom I
shall never be ashamed to acknowledge as {18} such tho' lowly his origine;
nay not only not ashamed but proud of doing so for I am one of those who
esteem and respect a man according to his ability and probity, deeming with
Dr. Watts 'that the mind is the standard of the man,'[40] has laid before
you and asked your opinion of his extraordinary performance, viz. the
quadrature of the circle, he did this with the firmest belief that you
would not only treat the matter in a straightforward manner but with the
conviction that from your known or supposed knowledge of mathematicks would
have given an upright and honorable decision upon the subject; but the
question is have you done so? Could I say yes I would with the greatest of
pleasure and have congratulated you upon your decision whatever it might
have been but I am sorry to say that I cannot your letter is a paltry
evasion, you say 'that it is a great pity that you (Mr. ----) should have
attempted this (the quadrature of the circle) for your mathematical
knowledge is not sufficient to make you know in what the problem consists,'
you don't say in what it does consist _according to your ideas_, oh! no
nothing of the sort, you enter into no disquisition upon the subject in
order to show where you think Mr. ---- is wrong and why you have not is
simply--_because you cann