George Biddell Airy to Faraday   19 December 1853

Royal Observatory Greenwich | 1853 Decr. 19

My dear Sir

I have kept your letter of the 9th1 by me, partly because I have been very busy and a little while absent, partly because I wished to try whether I could rake up any thing that would be likely to suit you.

To this moment I have not. And on the whole I should be glad to feel myself free from the tie of a lecture engagement. I have a good deal of unusual official work laid out for the spring2.

But if any thing occurs to me as a fitting subject, I will give you notice and will be prepared to consult your wish3. The mere trouble of giving a lecture is a very inconsiderable thing.

I am, my dear Sir, | Yours very truly | G.B. Airy

Professor Faraday | &c &c &c

2
This would appear to concern the publication of observations made at the Cape of Good Hope. Airy, W. (1896), 219.
3
To give a Friday Evening Discourse.

Bibliography

AIRY, Wilfrid (1896): Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy, Cambridge.

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