William Edward Hickson to Faraday   22 May 1853

Fairseat | Wrotham | Kent | May 22/53

My dear Sir

Some time at least in the course of the summer I hope you will be more at leisure. Pray consider the invitation a standing one, and that when ever you can command a day or two’s holiday you may be sure here of a hearty welcome.

If you should see Mr Carpenter1 will you make my compts to him & say that I quite agree with his biological exposition2. Two years ago in a paper I wrote in the Westmr3 I went over the same ground.

Our present facts however have nothing to do with the laws of suggestion. The rotation when it commences more generally interrupts than allows the order of conversation.

If Mr Carpenter intend following up his experiments, will you ask him if he will run down here as yr locum tenens.

With the assistance of Miss Grants4 establishment in wh there are 60 inmates we can produce all the phenomena any evening with as much certainty as making the wheels of a clock turn by winding it up.

Yours truly | W.E. Hickson

1
William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885, DSB). Professor of Forensic Medicine at University College London, 1845-1856.
2
See Carpenter (1852), Friday Evening Discourse of 12 March 1852.
3
[Hickson] (1851).
4
According to Kent POD a Miss Grant ran a school at Stanstead which is three miles from Wrotham.

Bibliography

CARPENTER, William Banjamin (1852): “On the Influence of Suggestion in Modifying and directing Muscular Movement, independently of Volition”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 1: 147-53.

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