| Description | Letter from William Thomson (Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907) at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, to David Thomson. He is comfortably settled in attic rooms in College; describes arrival and reception by tutor Cookson who guided him around the College; gives his impression of Hopkins and Challis, with some details of the observatory; describes evening with Gregory, who expounded on the weakness of the 'Johnsian notation'; relays other College news; asks advice about life in Cambridge. |