Faraday to James Timmins Chance   17 August 1860

The Green | Hampton Court | 17 Aug 1860

My dear Sir

I have made my report to the Trinity House Yesterday¹.

I have received no written account or statement from the R Commissioners or the Astronomer Royal nor do I believe that the Trinity house has. We had no other means of gaining our information than you had with us[.]

I cannot send you my report though I should be very glad that you and all should see it:- it belongs to the Trinity house & therefore I have not the power. I expect they will write to you for I have advised that you should put a new & effectual lamp & readjust the South house if with such a lamp it may seem to you to require adjustment. Carefully leaving the North light alone in all things that it may serve for a standard of comparison. I have suggested that when the South light is rectified both for lamp and adjustment we ought to have some means of comparing it at Sea with the North light so as to shew the effect of the adjustment with the old lamp & then both of adjustment & new lamp - i.e to get if possible the effect of the right lamp & the effect of the right adjustment separately. Perhaps this may be a little difficult[.]

If it was understood that you were to write to the Trinity Board do so - I should be wrong in any way to change or guide your intentions in respect of any understanding between you & the Deputy Master². I have said that you were quite willing to make any change that the Trinity house would require[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Jas. Chance Esq | &c &c &c