| Description | She asks if John can pay a higher than expected bill from Mr Mason, for work on the carriage. Mary went to church yesterday and has almost resolved not to go again, referring to the poor quality of the service. She has marked a 'Saturday Review' article which is related to this. She has been reading [Blaise] Pascal and asks if John would like to hear about it. She describes her health worries, 'physical weariness from coughing', and the morphine she is taking to treat these attacks. She describes Esther's first attempt at a Latin name of a fern, and comments on the field and its confused nomenclature. 'W' [William James Herschel] says her eclipse information 'is Greek to him', asking questions, but she thinks it is not her place to instruct a Herschel in astronomy. |