Alfred Phillipps Ryder to Faraday   21 November 1860

Royal Commission, | Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, | 7, Millbank Street, S.W. | London.

Dear Mr Faraday

Mr Wilkins informed me the other day that his only spare fountain lamp is at present at the Trinity House for Experimental purposes[.]

The R. Commission are about to make some experiments on lamps - will you kindly inform me whether your experiments are finished[.]

Admiral Hamilton1 desires me to say that he is looking forward with much pleasure to receiving from the Trinity House your report on the Whitby light - which will be incorporated in our report2 -

Mr Wilkins spoke with some pride of an overflow lamp of his which he hopes will produce a higher flame than the French have you experimented with it?

Yours truly | Alfred P. Ryder

21st Novr. 60

1
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton (1803–1881, B1, O’Byrne (1849), 453). Second Secretary of the Admiralty, 1845–1855. Chairman of Royal Commission on Lighthouses.
2
Faraday report to Trinity House, 19 October 1860, letter 3865, volume 5. This report was published in Parliamentary Papers, 1861 [2793] XXV, volume 1, pp.93-4.

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