| Description | Much of the correspondence between James and William Thomson from summer 1861, which Larmor has seen, relates to crystallization and liquefaction. He has omitted this in favour of correspondence from October and November of the year. The paper in question was sent to [George Gabriel] Stokes on 10 October 1861. The notes were from after this and he thinks they have not been published before. He has put these letters in a series with [Michael] Faraday and [Henry Clifton] Sorby. He notes the items he has placed in the 'Dynamic' series. He does not have proof that his father wrote some items, but he thinks so, having found the raw material in notes. He has added a list of words introduced by his father. Thomson had intended to place an extract from his ventilation patent as an appendix. For the biography, he has taken portions of his sister's writing and incorporated them with both his wife's, and his own. They have been careful to preserve Larmor's amendments. In viewing the two wooden models on the continuity of liquid and gaseous states Larmor drew attention to a note on the box referring to a paper of 1862. This puzzled Thomson but has resereached it and found the paper, which encloses [not present]. Thomson concludes by noting changes in his travel plans. |