78 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1834. keep one, for the state of your nasal economy on February 

 14th, 



Your excellent friend, Captain Forman, has got a rise in the 

 world. Sedge wick has mentioned him in the notes to a pub- 

 lished sermon on the studies at Cambridge ; not, indeed, as an 

 individual, but as the representative of a class, ' The Formans ' 

 of the day. You know the story of Louis XIV., who noticed a 

 merchant very much, and thereby emboldened him to ask for 

 letters of nobility, which he got, and the King never spoke to 

 him after, saying, ' You were the first of your class, now you are 

 the last.' Would you rather be the first of the Formans or the 

 last of the savans ? 



Your paper on Uranus and Co. is in course of reading at the 

 Astronomical. The observations of Captain Foster will nearly 

 fill Volume VII. of our Memoirs ; but if any paper is added to 

 them, it must be your Test Objects which has been read, and this. 

 You will therefore receive them before long. I forget at this 

 moment whether you ordered extra copies, but I have your last 

 letter and shall look ; I shall also ask Mr. Baily. I should not 

 have troubled you with such a scrawl had I not Mr. Baily's 

 letter to send, to which this shall be scum or dregs, according as 

 you think it most flighty or stupid. 



* Yours very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 

 5 Upper Gower Street, 



Wednesday, Feby. 14, 1834. 



To William Frend. 



Sept. 1, 1834. 



MY DEAR SIR, I was not surprised to find on my return to 

 town on Friday that you had decamped, seeing that you take 

 pleasure in the wilderness. Neither must you be astonished that 

 I did not exceed by a single day my estimate of the time I could 

 bear the viridity of extra-urban scenery. I suppose you will let 

 me know how to direct to you before long. While my health is 

 recovering from the effects of the raw atmosphere I have been 

 breathing, I write this in preference to more serious occupation. 

 This is no joke, I assure you ; whenever I return from the coun- 

 try I am knocked down for some days, and could be ill with 

 very little contrivance or external instigation, which never hap- 

 pens if I stay in town. And yet I have been only two days 

 regularly in the wilds. To give you some account of my progress, 



