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From:
Thomas Henry Farrer
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 September 1856
Source of text:
TNA MT4 / 24, p.4607
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Explains lack of correspondence due to lumbago. Hopes to attend meeting with JSH and others if condition improves, bringing examples of Russian ammunition and black bread. This is probably Borodinsky bread, which uses coriander seeds to represent grapeshot.
Thought that AD's last letter was supposed to be written in verse. Hopes his injury will soon improve. Does not recollect any habit of Humphry Davy rubbing his hands together. A professor, [G. J.?] Stoney, has re-invented JH's collimating telescope and not improved it.