[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],
Title
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],
Creator
Date
Identifier
GFF 15/40
Description
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" stationary, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C. London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 12 October 1896. Bond discusses who may be the best candidate for a job relating to electrical discharge, and a recent writing by Bond. 2pp.
Transcript:
Dear Prof. Fitzgerald.
Many thanks for your advice re [?] on the electric discharge in unified gases. I have written Prof. J.J. Thomson fully and freely on the subject. My two favourites for the job were Profs J.J. Thomson & S.P. Thompson; the former I regardedas hopelessly eminent and the latter as too much mixed up in book-making to make anything but a paste & scissors job of this one. We shall see what we shall see.
Your vigorous indictment caused me considerable popularity. By the same post as this, I am sending you a proof of my solution of the problem of how to get the great man to accept advice. I scarcely think your leader would have served that purpose. I trust you will think my faint reflection of it worth printing. Any suggestions or corrections that you have to make will be most carefully considered by me. I am sincerely obliged to you for arousing me to the enormity of the nonsense contained in a certain B. A. Paper.
Yours very truely,
W.G. Bond
Transcript:
Dear Prof. Fitzgerald.
Many thanks for your advice re [?] on the electric discharge in unified gases. I have written Prof. J.J. Thomson fully and freely on the subject. My two favourites for the job were Profs J.J. Thomson & S.P. Thompson; the former I regardedas hopelessly eminent and the latter as too much mixed up in book-making to make anything but a paste & scissors job of this one. We shall see what we shall see.
Your vigorous indictment caused me considerable popularity. By the same post as this, I am sending you a proof of my solution of the problem of how to get the great man to accept advice. I scarcely think your leader would have served that purpose. I trust you will think my faint reflection of it worth printing. Any suggestions or corrections that you have to make will be most carefully considered by me. I am sincerely obliged to you for arousing me to the enormity of the nonsense contained in a certain B. A. Paper.
Yours very truely,
W.G. Bond
Source
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
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Rights
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Relation
RDS Science Archive
Format
Manuscript
Language
English
Type
Coverage
1870-1901
Collection
Citation
Bond, W. G., “[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed July 20, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/981.