Item 15 - Letter from Philip Worsley Wood to W. W. Rouse Ball

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Emmanuel College, Cambridge - Thanks Rouse Ball for the Cayley MS; it 'may not add much to our knowledge of the binary quintic, but I find it very interesting as an "exhibit"'. Believes it 'fashionable to try and despise Cayley's downright sledge hammer methods of attack; but he had a wonderful power of reaching his objective. He was a mathematical tank in some of his methods, but he knew where he was going'. Has always regretted that Cayley died before he came up. Likes to think of himself as a 'sort of grandson' since he learned geometry from G. T. Bennett, who learnt it from Cayley.