George Biddell Airy to Faraday   11 February 1854

Royal Observatory Greenwich | 1854 February 11

My dear Sir

I am much obliged by the copy of your lecture on the long-telegraph-wire-experiments¹. I was burning for it, and probably in two days more should have inquired of you whether it was printed.

I like your notions on the entanglement of the induction and conduction, though I cannot yet place the mechanics of them in a clear form before my own mind.

I had returned (alone) before your lecture, and had dreamed of attending it. But a desperate trustee-meeting concerning a new arrangement of a Charity Trust left me hungry and weary two or three hours before the lecture, and I was glad to be quiet.

Yours very truly | G.B. Airy

Professor Faraday