Faraday to Josiah Latimer Clark   6 June 1854

Royal Institution | June 6th 1854

My dear Sir,

I am very greatly obliged by your most interesting note¹. The fact is very interesting. You attribute it to the inductive action of lightning and I suppose lightning must have been the cause of it. Do you not think it possible that the lightning has acted by shock on to the metal tubes in the earth containing the wires; which would serve as lightning conductors to the flash, & that they may have induced at the moment on the wires within or may even have divided the flash with them.

I am, My dear Sir | Yours very truly | M. Faraday

Latimer Clark Esqre