[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],
Title
[Letter to George F. Fitzgerald from W. G. Bond],
Creator
Date
Identifier
GFF 15/45
Description
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" notepaper, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C., London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 11 May 1897. The letter discusses religion and scientific advancement, and an upcoming edition of "The Electrician". 2pp.
Transcription:
Dear Prof. Fitzgerald.
Prof. J.J. Thomson's lecture will not be published this week, but next week; we are having some little trouble in getting the blocks done.
I hope, therfore, you will have sufficient time and determination to put pen to paper and administer consolations to those of the true faith (at least it was true not so very long ago). To call a man a splitter of hairs used in the good old days to be sailing close to insult, but now no one says nay when that bedrock of the textbook chemist, the atom, is being split into as many fragments as the Hell Gate rock was a few years since. And the worst of it is that as a rule our ingenious wriggling out of me set of difficulties mly bonds us in another quagmire a little later, like our social & political reforms; for every [?] tree cut fown half a dozen annoying brambles or noxious weeds spring up and the algebraical sum of things approximates a constant.
Your's very truely,
W.G. Bond
P.S. Since you insist upon arranging your method of [?], so be it; but I cannot allow the rate to remain where it is.
Transcription:
Dear Prof. Fitzgerald.
Prof. J.J. Thomson's lecture will not be published this week, but next week; we are having some little trouble in getting the blocks done.
I hope, therfore, you will have sufficient time and determination to put pen to paper and administer consolations to those of the true faith (at least it was true not so very long ago). To call a man a splitter of hairs used in the good old days to be sailing close to insult, but now no one says nay when that bedrock of the textbook chemist, the atom, is being split into as many fragments as the Hell Gate rock was a few years since. And the worst of it is that as a rule our ingenious wriggling out of me set of difficulties mly bonds us in another quagmire a little later, like our social & political reforms; for every [?] tree cut fown half a dozen annoying brambles or noxious weeds spring up and the algebraical sum of things approximates a constant.
Your's very truely,
W.G. Bond
P.S. Since you insist upon arranging your method of [?], so be it; but I cannot allow the rate to remain where it is.
Source
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
Rights
Copyright RDS Library & Archives. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the RDS Library & Archives.
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 May 24, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/986.