George Gabriel Stokes to Faraday   25 February 1853

Pembroke College Cambridge | Feb 25th 1853

Dear Prof. Faraday,

I deferred answering your letter in hopes of being able to say that I had sent the M.S. of the abstract of my lecture1. However I do not wish to delay longer, though I can only say that it is in progress.

With respect to your other question, I have not been at any expense about instruments, as what I used I had previously, with the exception of a single piece of coloured glass. As to my travelling expenses, which do not come to much, it is not my wish to be repaid, I should prefer leaving it as it stands.

Believe me | Yours very truly | G.G. Stokes

Stokes (1853), Friday Evening Discourse of 18 February 1853. See James (1985), 151-2 for a discussion of this lecture.

Bibliography

JAMES, Frank A.J.L. (1985): “'The Optical Mode of Investigation': Light and Matter in Faraday's Natural Philosophy” in Gooding and James (1985), 137-61.

STOKES, George Gabriel (1853): “On the Change of Refrangibility of Light, and the exhibition thereby of the Chemical Rays”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 259-64.

Please cite as “Faraday2644,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2644