Faraday to George Biddell Airy   24 December 1851

Royal Institution | 24 Decr. 1851

My dear Airy

I send you by way of remembrance at this Season with our best wishes to You & Mrs. Airy a few forms of iron filings over magnets1. You will see the places of the magnets &c on the under side[.] When you told me about the total Eclipse you did not repress my hope that we should hear you tell the results in our Lecture room this season on a Friday Evening2. How I should rejoice to hear them & a few of your thoughts about the physical constitution of the Sun or of the bodies about him. May I nurse this hope up and give it more & more strength? Tell me Yes[.]

Ever Yours Truly | M. Faraday

1
See Faraday, Diary, 11, 12, 13 November 1851, 6: 11666-11703 for Faraday’s production of iron filing diagrams.
2
Airy, G.B. (1851), Friday Evening Discourse of 2 May 1851. Airy did not give a Discourse during 1852.

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