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From:
William Thomson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 August 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Asks for details of WL's system of speculum polishing and telescope construction as JH is preparing an article on telescopes for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Requests information about specula for telescopes, especially silvered glass ones.
Writes about the activities of several family members, and then comments on the location of a railway extension, which will come closer to Collingwood.
Talks about the beauty of the flowers at Collingwood, and then comments on his Essays Q.E.R.