MDDM Last Transit Ch. 74 (Mason's Melancholy)

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> Terrance wrote:
> 
> > We get a look at what seems to be the letter. He and Mask are reading it
> > over. Mask is concerned. Bloody language is rather strange.
> 
> No, I think the missing letter is a separate issue. Here they're talking
> about Mason's report (726.12) from the Transit of Venus Obs. in South Ulster
> where Mason must've seen Messier's 1769 comet.
> 
> best

Yes, thanks, how silly of me, of course they are talking about the
report not the letter. Also, it seems that Wicks has a copy of the
Minutes kept at the meeting December 15 1768. 

Wicks has a copy of Mask's letter dated Nov. 9th. In it he replies to
Mason's letter of Oct. 15. But they  don't have Mason's letter for this
date or any of them, although his letters are said to be extant.  

They speculate, attempting to extrapolate what Mason may have written in
the letter Mask replies to. Something about God, above and below and the
invisible and Taylor....

At 726 Mask and Mason discuss the language/content of Mason's report.