Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage, 10 July 1843

A letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage.

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          <p>My dear <name>Babbage</name>, I am
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            <p>I <emph>think</emph> you will be
            <lb/>pleased. I have made
            <lb/>what appears to me some
            <lb/>very important extensions
            <lb/>&amp; improvements. Why I
            <lb/>now write is to beg you
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            will send down to the
            <lb/>Square before tomorrow
            <lb/>evening, Brooks's Formulae,
            <lb/>&amp;also the <title>Report of the
            <lb/>Royal Society</title> on your 
            <lb/>machine. I suppose you 
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          <p>It appears to me
            <lb/>that I am working up the
            <lb/>Notes with much success;
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            <lb/>be delayed in it's
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            <lb/>two, in consequence, it would
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Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage, 10 July 1843

Unpublished teaching transcription

Information about the source

 1843 362 Ockham Monday 10 July Bernoulli

My dear Babbage, I am working very hard for you; like the Devil in fact; (which perhaps I am).

I think you will be pleased. I have made what appears to me some very important extensions & improvements. Why I now write is to beg you will send down to the Square before tomorrow evening, Brooks's Formulae, &also the Report of the Royal Society on your machine. I suppose you can get it easily, & I particularly want to see it, before I see you on Weddy Wednesday Mong Morning .

It appears to me that I am working up the Notes with much success; & that even if the book be delayed in it's publication, faute de mieux, a week or two, in consequence, it would be worth Wm Taylor's while to wait. I will have it well & fully done; or not at all.

I want to put in something about Bernoulli's Numbers , in one of my Notes, as an example of how an implicit function may be worked out by the engine , without having been worked out by a human head & hands first. Give me the necessary data & formulae.

Yours ever A. A. L 1 This book was important. See Wikipedia.

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Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage, 10 July 1843

Unpublished teaching transcription

Information about the source

 1843 362 Ockham Monday 10 July Bernoulli

My dear Babbage, I am working very hard for you; like the Devil in fact; (which perhaps I am).

I think you will be pleased. I have made what appears to me some very important extensions & improvements. Why I now write is to beg you will send down to the Square before tomorrow evening, Brooks's Formulae, &also the Report of the Royal Society on your machine. I suppose you can get it easily, & I particularly want to see it, before I see you on Weddy Wednesday Mong Morning .

It appears to me that I am working up the Notes with much success; & that even if the book be delayed in it's publication, faute de mieux, a week or two, in consequence, it would be worth Wm Taylor's while to wait. I will have it well & fully done; or not at all.

I want to put in something about Bernoulli's Numbers , in one of my Notes, as an example of how an implicit function may be worked out by the engine , without having been worked out by a human head & hands first. Give me the necessary data & formulae.

Yours ever A. A. L This book was important. See Wikipedia.