[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 30 Novr. 1860
My dear Sir
I shall be most happy to say or do any thing I can in the good cause of Science - whenever it suits you to proceed in the matter - if I am able to do so2. Simple questions I could answer at once but consideration I am afraid I could hardly until the year is out for I am slow now by reason of years & I have lectures to deliver at Christmas3[.]
I thank you for the way in which you have put the gravitation case it is just what I mean4. I have during the summer made expts on weights of 300lbs nearly at altitudes differing 160 or 170 feet - in relation to heat & Electricity of tension5[.]
But the results were negative & though I drew up a paper6 - still being negative - a good friend Mr Stokes7 advised me not to send it to the Royal Society8[.]
They are not decisive either one way or the other[.]
Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday
P.G. Tait Esqr | &c &c &c
BENCE JONES, Henry (1870a): The Life and Letters of Faraday, 1st edition, 2 volumes, London.
FARADAY, Michael (1861c): A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle; to which is added a Lecture on Platinum, London.
TAIT, Peter Guthrie (1860): The Position and Prospects of Physical Science. A Public Inaugural Lecture delivered on November 7, 1860, Edinburgh.
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