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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isaac Bancroft Cooke
Date:
21 August 1847
Source of text:
RI MS
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Has had to leave his work with the Sector due to ill health. Found [George] Child overworked at the Observatory. Comments on some observations. Pleased to hear that JH's health has improved. Mr. Watermeyer has died and C. F. H. von Ludwig remarried. Gives latest news of Kaffir War. Comments on the quarrel between G. B. Airy and James South.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results.