March 12, 1851.
My dear Sir,
Many thanks for your most liberal provision of the healing liquid - the Caledonian water - which I shall make last me my life, and which for the donor’s sake shall never be applied to meaner uses. I think I got a quieter night last night by it’s application.
May I ask you for two admission tickets to the lecture of Friday next1 for 2 friends (not for reserved seats but for the general circle.)
Your speculations on the diurnal & annual variations2 as referable to the magnetization of oxygen took me quite by surprise. I had no Idea you had gone so far into the matter. I find them difficult to follow from the habitual use of so totally different a mode of “envisaging” the magnetic forces.
Believe me &c | (sd) J.F.W.H
GULL, William Withey (1851): “On some points in the Physiology of Voluntary Movement”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 37-41.
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