| Description | He writes to correct any misapprehension that he is guilty of 'humbug'. He has no quarrel with wealth, his quarrel is with the world made up of common people who make too much of wealth. Heaviside was content with subsistence when he was making discoveries, 'they were meat & drink & company to me'. Now he is older, in ill-health and living in the country, the inconveniences of narrow means are hateful, but a few pounds are of no use. He does not understand Larmor's reference to Rayleigh, and does not know Wien. [Mihajlo] Pupin is a good man, he believes, and would not play any part in robbing Heaviside the credit of his discoveries, which Heaviside had to force upon public attention. He hopes that Larmor will visit if he is ever nearby. In a postscript he states that the long delay in publishing volume 3 of 'Electromagnetic theory' was due to the editor and publisher. |