Record

RefNoMS/928/6/2/3
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Frederick Guthrie, Normal School of Science and Royal School of Mines, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, to Rev. Charles Boys
Date3 March 1883
DescriptionIntroducing himself as having attended Charles Vernon Boys's Friday evening discourse at the Royal Institution. It was a great success with a large and distinguished audience. He notes that it must have been an ordeal for 'a comparatively young man'. Gives other general comments including that 'the future of the great school of English physics' rests with Boys and three or four others.
Extent4p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA6408Guthrie; Frederick (1833 - 1886)1833 - 1886
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