304 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1860. tional misnomer in which they may see good, or for which they 

 may find reason. 



I am, dear sir, 



Tonrs very truly, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To a Friend. 



41 Chalcot Villas, Jan. 19, 1861. 



1861. MY DEAR , Two days ago I heard from Miss Sheep- 

 shanks of the heavy blow which has fallen upon you and , 



a dreadful shock, and, I must suppose, wholly unlooked for. 

 With my strong and increasing disposition to congratulate those 

 who leave this world, I feel an increasing amount of sympathy 

 for those who are left behind ; and you and your wife's share of 

 this mournful event will command the sympathies of thousands 

 you know nothing of in addition to those of your friends. 



I trust you both bear up, and try to balance what is left 

 against what is gone. That this is not easy I know. A few days 

 more than seven years have elapsed since it was my turn, and I 

 could not then feel that six left made any set-off against one 

 gone. I could only understand it. But time will do for you 

 what it has done for me. 



My wife unites her sympathy and kind regards with mine. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Rev. Dr. Whewell. 1 



41 Chalcot Villas, Jan. 20, 1861. 



MY DEAR SIR, This very (Sun)day how I do not know, but 

 1 suppose the Parcels Company holds it a work of necessity and 

 mercy to distribute the parcels which have accumulated during 

 the frost ; most likely they have been obliged to suspend some 

 work by the state of the streets I have received the volume of 

 Barrow, for which I have to return thanks either to you or the 

 College ; c'est egal, Vetat c'est moi ! I say nothing as yet, except 

 that it is exceedingly handy and time-saving to have these books 



1 Wafered into a volume of tracts left by Dr. Whewell to Trin. 

 Coll. The succeeding letter refers to the memoir entitled ' On the 

 Syllogism, No. IV., and on the Logic of Relations,' in the Trans- 

 actions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, vol. x., part ii., 1860. 



