[Letter to Unknown from W. G. Bond],
Title
[Letter to Unknown from W. G. Bond],
Creator
Date
Identifier
GFF 15/47
Subject
Description
Handwritten letter from W. G. Bond on "The Electrician" stationary, Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, E.C. London, to George F. Fitzgerald, dated 8 June 1896. 2 pp.
Transcript:
Dear Sir.
I feel uncomfortably like unto Oliver Twist, I have had the good fortune to secure your services for an article on land Kelvin's physical researches, but, not content, proceed to ask for more. My excuse must be the reciept of the enclosed [?] from Prof. Perry. I may say that we have tried in vain for many years past to induce Mr Heaviside to allow us to publish a steel-plate portrait; we shall not indeed weary of well-doing, but unfortunately we cannot publish a portrait this year now, as the B. A. week portrait portrait has already been arranged for, after a refusal from Mr Heaviside's moderly shall be reversed.
Prof. Perry's idea of a brief article celebrating the granting of this minute [?] is very excellent and not less so the suggested writers.
I think a leader might well be written and I should be very grateful to you if you would undertake it and send it to me, so that it could be used the moment the announcement appears in the Gazette.
We English are getting on. First we propose to celebrate, with about German[?], the life's labours of a mere man of science, and now a civil list [?] has been awarded to an meta-abtuse mathematician of the more retiring disporition imaginable.
Houser t'is well so far the Bishop of London recently publicly anathemalised science teaching in [?] and King's College, whilst mercilessly cutting down medical & science salaries, recently distinguished itslef by actually augmenting theologicial grants.
Yours truely,
W.G. bond
Transcript:
Dear Sir.
I feel uncomfortably like unto Oliver Twist, I have had the good fortune to secure your services for an article on land Kelvin's physical researches, but, not content, proceed to ask for more. My excuse must be the reciept of the enclosed [?] from Prof. Perry. I may say that we have tried in vain for many years past to induce Mr Heaviside to allow us to publish a steel-plate portrait; we shall not indeed weary of well-doing, but unfortunately we cannot publish a portrait this year now, as the B. A. week portrait portrait has already been arranged for, after a refusal from Mr Heaviside's moderly shall be reversed.
Prof. Perry's idea of a brief article celebrating the granting of this minute [?] is very excellent and not less so the suggested writers.
I think a leader might well be written and I should be very grateful to you if you would undertake it and send it to me, so that it could be used the moment the announcement appears in the Gazette.
We English are getting on. First we propose to celebrate, with about German[?], the life's labours of a mere man of science, and now a civil list [?] has been awarded to an meta-abtuse mathematician of the more retiring disporition imaginable.
Houser t'is well so far the Bishop of London recently publicly anathemalised science teaching in [?] and King's College, whilst mercilessly cutting down medical & science salaries, recently distinguished itslef by actually augmenting theologicial grants.
Yours truely,
W.G. bond
Source
RDS Library & Archives GFF collection of letters
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Relation
RDS Science Archive
Format
Manuscript
Language
English
Type
Coverage
1870-1901
Collection
Citation
Bond, W. G., “[Letter to Unknown from W. G. Bond],,” RDS Digital Archive, accessed May 24, 2025, https://digitalarchive.rds.ie/items/show/988.