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FW: I, on the other hand, would have been full of joy if Wretched Son had ever deigned to give me a grandchild, so I really don't understand where all the criticism comes from!

HA.

(it usually according to Dennison was a mixture of both)

Yeah, that sounds very plausible, and I think that's very cool.

In any event, she wrote diplomatic letters with Leipniz but sided with Newton; her diplomacy must have been good enough for Leipniz not to feel himself betrayed, though, as he continued to be nice about her in his letters to other people.

Oh, that's actually really neat -- I feel like the icky bit about the whole Leipniz/Newton thing was how everyone was kind of their worst selves about it all, and it's rather nice to find someone who wasn't.
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