I believe that astronomers finally came to his conclusion.

I remember once going into Boston in the omnibus when Peirce got in with a letter in his hand that he had just got from abroad and saying with great exultation to Professor Felton, who happened to be there, "Gauss says I am right." I got well acquainted with Professor Peirce after I left College.

He used to come to Washington after I came into public life.

I found him one of the most delightful of men.
His treatise "Ideality in the Physical Sciences," and one or two treatises of a religious character which he published, are full of a lofty and glowing eloquence.

He gave a few lectures in mathematics to the class which, I believe, were totally incomprehensible to every one of his listeners with the possible exception of Child.