George Gabriel Stokes to Faraday   23 October 1856

69 Albert St. Regent’s Park | Oct 23d 1856

My dear Sir,

I have just got and read Mr. Field’s paper which seems a nice one and will do very well for the Proceedings1.

I shall take great interest in reading your paper on Gold2, but I shall scrutanize very carefully the evidence for the ruby colour being due to metallic gold3.

Yours very truly | G.G. Stokes

M. Faraday Esqr | &c &c &c turn over

I see you have called me Stokes; I hope you will not consider it too great a liberty if I call you Faraday.

1
Field (1856). The manuscript is in RS MS AP 39.31.
2
Faraday (1857c).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1857c): “Experimental Relations of Gold (and other Metals) to light”, Phil. Trans., 147: 145-81.

FIELD, Frederick (1856): “On the Existence of Silver in Sea-water”, Proc. Roy. Soc., 8: 292-5.

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