William Thomson to Faraday   14 May 18601

Laboratory R.I. | Monday 4 pm

My dear Faraday

Many thanks for your kind note2. I hope by Wednesday3 to be ready with my instruments, and when you come I shall have to ask your advice on many points connected with the arrangements for my lecture4.

With Anderson’s assistance I have been at work all day putting up one of my electrometers, and I shall probably have nearly as much work tomorrow with another. I find a great deal of trouble in making the glass fibre suspension having very little skill of hand so that what would be easy & short to others costs me a great deal of time & trouble.

Believe me | Yours very truly | William Thomson


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1
Dated on the basis of the reference to Thomson’s Friday Evening Discourse.
2
Not found.
3
That is 16 May 1860.
4
Thomson (1860b), Friday Evening Discourse of 18 May 1860.

Bibliography

THOMSON, William (1860b): “On Atmospheric Electricity”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 3: 277-90.

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