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two works that have occupied my mind these
two years. As soon as I thought I had obtained
a satisfactory result, my first wish was to inform
you of it; but Herr Weierstrass, with his usual
kindness, undertook to write to you about my
successful researches. I have just received a
letter from him, telling me that he had written
to you, and received your answer in return, in
which, with your invariable kindness towards
me, you ask me to come to Stockholm as soon
as possible, in order to begin a course of private
lectures there. I cannot sufficiently express my
gratitude for the friendship you have always
shewn me, nor tell you how happy I am to enter
upon a career, which has been the object of my
constant desires. Nevertheless, I must not
conceal from you, that in many respects I
do not feel myself qualified for the duties of
a lecturer, and I am almost afraid that, in
spite of your kind predilection for me, you will
be quite disappointed with my performances,
when you come to see them at close quarters.
‘I feel so deeply obliged to the Stockholm
University, which, alone among all, is willing
to open its doors to me, that I can only wish
to attach myself to Stockholm and Sweden,
and to look upon them as my second country,
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