George Biddell Airy to Faraday   26 November 1860

1860 November 26

My dear Sir

I assure you that I will cherish a very favourable feeling towards your application for an Eclipse Lecture¹. Still I will ask you not to set me down yet. For I hardly yet see my way. I have between 60 & 70 accounts of the Eclipse, which I must continue so far to inspect as to be able in some measure to compare statements by different persons of the same stage of phenomenon &c &c. Now, when to find the time for that inspection “quod rerum omnium est primum” as the Latin Grammar says,² I do not quite know.

However we will not despair.

I am, my dear Sir, | Most truly yours | G.B. Airy

Professor Faraday | &c &c &c