[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from Thomas Preston],

GFF 11/22

Handwritten letter from Thomas Preston to George F. Fitzgerald, written on 21 November 1898, on paper from his home in Bardowie, Orwell Park, Rathgar, County Dublin. He writes that he saw a reference to Cotton’s ideas in the [Complete Reader?] taken from an issue of the Éclairage Électrique, published in 1896 as part of a doctoral thesis [L’Éclairage Électrique was a French periodical magazine that ran from 1894-1907]. He also saw a note about it in the Journal de Physique. He unsuccessfully searched for the Éclairage Électrique in the RDS, the Academy, and the Royal College of Science [Great Britain] and intended to
search in Trinity College. He wants to see the development of Cotton’s ideas and whether he went off-track because he missed part of the question. 2pp.

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