Faraday to James Hall Nasmyth1   29 April 1861

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 29 April 1861

My dear Nasmith,

Grove tells me of your beautiful drawing of a Sun’s spot which was shewn in the [word illegible] early in the summer. Could you lend it to me for next Friday2 - as also your drawing of the Willow pattern3.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Jas Naysmith Esq | &c &c &c

1
James Hall Nasmyth (1808–1890, ODNB). Engineer and astronomer in Manchester.
2
Faraday (1861b), Friday Evening Discourse of 3 May 1861.
3
This was Nasmyth’s name for features of the solar surface to which Faraday referred in his Friday Evening Discourse of 3 May 1861, ‘On the Solar Eclipse of July 18, 1860’, Chem.News, 1 June 1861, 3: 334-8, p.338. See also Faraday’s notes in RI MS F4 G59.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1861b): “On Mr. Warren de la Rue's Photographic Eclipse Results”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 3: 362-366.

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