Davies, Charles (1798-1876) to Henry Jackson Hunt
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02382.119 Author/Creator: Davies, Charles (1798-1876) Place Written: Fishkill, New York Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 5 January 1871 Pagination: 2 p. ; 20.1 x 25 cm. Order a Copy
Davies, a noted mathematician, responds to a letter from Hunt. Remarks "No problem in Science has been so difficult to me as our connections and relations with the Southern people, since the War, and our duties connected therewith. I have been and am, a warm sympathizer with them; but we have so much to do at home, growing out of the same causes, that it seems quite beyond our means to do all that we would like to do- I... may yet do something in the particular case to which you refer; which is certainly an extreme one." Throughout his life, Davies occupied various military posts and prestigious teaching positions in mathematics.
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