From Frederick Temple   18 November 1856

My Dear Professor

I have to beg your forgiveness for not answering two long and interesting Letters from you and even now I am so pressed with work that I must be very brief.

I only received your Letter of the 15 ^th this morning. The specimens for the Magic Lantern can be seen at Messs. Home & Thornthwaite’s. 121 Newgate St. The Light is an Oxycalcium & very well managed.

I am glad that you mean to poke up Fitch for your Diagrams have been delayed very long.

I believe that before long I shall cease to take charge of the Scientific Apparatus. D ^r Playfair & the Department of Science are so charmed with our work in that kind that they propose to steal it

I wish I could go with you to Thornthwaite’s but I am so tied down by official engagements just now that I fear it impossible

Your’s faithfully| F Temple