<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Tim Robinson's reply to Doron Swade:<div>...</div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Given your hint, I was able to track it down. It's in Passages, but
not in the section on the Analytical Engine. Instead it's in the
chapter "Recollections of Wollaston, Davy, and Rogers", p 194 in the
original.<br>
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He is referring to conversations with Rogers. He says, "I put into
his hands a parcel of proof-sheets of a work I was then writing,
thinking they might amuse him during his drive, and that I might
profit from is criticism. Some years before, I had consulted him
about a novel I had proposed to write solely for the purpose of
making money to assist me in completing the Analytical Engine. I
breakfasted with the poet, who entered fully into the subject. I
proposed to give up a twelvemonth to writing the novel, but I
determined not to commence it unless I saw pretty clearly that I
could make about £5000 by the sacrifice of my time. The novel was
to have been in three volumes, and there would probably have been
reprints of another work in two volumes. Both of these works would
have had graphic illustrations. The poet gave me much information
on all the subjects connected with the plan, and amongst other
things, observed that when he published his beautifully illustrated
work on Italy, that he had paid £9000 out of his own pocket before
he received any return for that work."<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Tim<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/5/14, 1:31 PM, doron.swade wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Marc
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<div>The source is 'Passages from the Life of a Philosopher',
Babbage's autobiographical excursion. I am away from my
sources in London at this time so can't check the page number
but it is, as I recall, in the chapter on the Analytical
Engine about where CB writes about tic-tac-toe arcade machines
as another reference to funding the construction of the
Analytical Engine. The references CB makes to novel writing
appear in the nature of a passing musing rather than
conscientious intention - but who knows. The intention may
have been real and the reference only, casual.</div>
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<div>Best wishes</div>
<div>Doron</div>
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