Item 114 - Letter from Thomas Perronet Thompson

2 pp.

Thanks WW for a copy of his ''Mathematical Exposition' ['Mathematical Exposition of Some Doctrines of Political Economy', 1829]; which I feel persuaded will have great effect in placing the doctrines of Political Economy generally, on the footing of mathematical demonstration. I should be much gratified if at any future period you should find time to apply the same processes to other portions of the science. We are at the point now, where seamen were, when they began to suspect that mathematical inductions might be usefully applied to conveying a vessel from one harbour to another'.