| Description | Does not recollect the name of the "imposter" but thinks he is "our countryman" [i.e. Scottish]. Is his name Gordon? Has company so cannot write more. Peter Wilson has come from Glasgow and is at Datchet with Mr. Herschel observing stars.
On the same sheet:
Letter. Peter Wilson (Datchet) to James Watt (Birmingham). 28 Sept. 1783.
Is engaged in "the plenitude of the spheres" with Herschel and Dr. Lind. Hopes James Watt got his last letter which he sent to John Buchanan. |