Letter from Horace Lamb, 6 Wilbraham Road, Fellowfield, Manchester, to [Joseph] Larmor Lamb notes that the analysis does not give a complete account of a free oscillation which must have had a beginning. He discusses the state of a field at any one instant, and the increase in amplitude in travelling outward. The explanation occurred to him soem years ago when writing on electrical oscillations. He thinks that J.J. Thomson took 'a quite Maxwellian liberty' in his analysis, but produced a better treatment in 'Recent Researches'. Lamb set a question on it in the mathematical tripos part 2, but got no answer. He thinks it might be worth inserting a note if the paper passes Larmor's scrutiny. He had some hesitation in submitting the paper, after a false start. 30 March 1910