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ago, but I could not get away from my work here. I live on students’
fees practically & any step which leaves my department under less
complete supervision 2.2 tends to impair its efficiency & at once affects
my income. Thus at present quite apart from the expenses of travel 2.3 I
see no possibility of being able to afford a visit to America from either
the standpoint of time or money.
I am, yours faithfully, Karl Pearson
3. Letter Newcomb - Pearson of 27 June 1903
Royal Societies’ [?] Club […]
Written on the form of the Universal Exposition, St. Louis 1904,
Congress of Arts and Science: President Simon Newcomb
Dear Professor Pearson: As I am to be around London for two
weeks or more, I prefer to wait and see whether your very busy season
may not have passed before I leave. The plain fact is that I believe you
are the one living writer whose productions I nearly always read, when
I have time and can get at them, and with whom I hold imaginary
interviews while I am reading.
Your paper (1902) published sixteen months ago on the Theory of
Errors reached me in Washington the day before I left home for a trip
to Italy, so I took it with me and read it on the voyage. It was quite a
treat to find that you had developed so fully some ideas which I had
enumerated in general form some thirty years ago, but only
incidentally, in a paper (1872b). I mention this merely to show that
certain features of the subject have not been so much neglected by
Astronomers as you seem to suppose.
As to the St. Louis Exposition, I hope you will hold your mind in a
plastic state until you hear further from me. I may have something to
say to you that will put the subject in a different light.
Yours very sincerely, S. Newcomb
Prof. Karl Pearson, University College, Gower Street
4. Letter Newcomb – Pearson of 3 July 1903
U. S. Despatch Agency, […] London
Dear Professor Pearson: I am authorized by the Administrative
Board of the International Congress of Science and Arts 4.1 , to be held
at St. Louis, September 19 – 25, 1904, to extend to you a cordial
invitation to attend the Congress as an official speaker on the subject
of METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE 4.2 .
I have already sent you a copy of the programme of the Congress
and I now enclose a paper containing information for the special use of
those who, like yourself, are invited from Europe as official speakers.
You will see that the necessary expenses of the journey will be amply
defrayed by the Exposition. I should be very glad to have a conference
with you on the subject, at such time as may suit your convenience,
but shall be out of London most of the time until Friday, July 10 th .
Yours very respectfully [Simon Newcomb]
5. Letter Newcomb – Pearson of 14 Nov. 1904
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