372 MEMOIR OF AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN. 



1867. an( j y ears before coffee was known in Paris, so far as has been 

 stated. The first coffee- shop was really started nine years after 

 Blaise's death by a man named Pascal, and the first started in 

 England was in 1652 by Pasqua, a Greek. In England in 1657, 

 ' Coffa see Cauphe,' is in Phillips's dictionary, and of ' Cauphe ' 

 it is said, ' it is much used in these parts.' 



I have nothing to say abont myself or my people. The world 

 wags as usual. I should like to hear of you . I have just found 

 out that Dr. Pearson began life as a junior partner in Sketchley 

 & Pearson, who kept a school at Fulham for boys from four to 

 ten. Here he had been for some years in 1800. I picked up a 

 sensibly written prospectus they said plan then of this esta- 

 blishment. He founded his great school at Sheen in 1811. I 

 make out that he was not a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge. 

 He was the undoubted projector of the Astronomical Society, and 

 his dinner there again set it going. Our kind regards to Lady 

 H , &c. 



Yours sincerely, 



A. DE MORGAN. 



To Sir John Herschel. 



91 Adelaide Road, August 15, 1867. 



MY DEAR SIR JOHN, A country clergyman (I think : how is 

 one to address where the party is a suspected clergyman ? May 

 one put down the probabilities as 



Rev. [f ] John Smith, Esq. [] ? ) 



has written to me to know why, in the Runic almanacs, or very 

 many of them, the days of the week begin from Monday. I 

 could only suspect that their almanac makers had the notion I 

 had when a child. They told me the week had seven days, and 

 that the seventh day was to be kept holy ; and they kept Sun- 

 day holy, and called it Sabbath. So I thought Monday was the 

 first day, and I well remember taking it as of coarse that the 

 day the women went to the sepulchre was Monday. 



But this puzzled me more. They always made the ' Scrip- 

 tures,' when mentioned in the New Testament, mean Old and 

 New both. So when I saw (Acts) that the Bereans searched 

 the Scriptures, I thought they would find Bereans who searched, 



