Letter from O J L [Oliver Joseph Lodge], The University, Birmingham, to [Joseph] Larmor He is glad to have a new letter from Larmor. Lodge thinks that 'one way of putting your contention was to say that is a condenser were normal to the aether drift, all its energy was electrostatic, and that it could not be turned into a parallel position without generating electromagnetic energy, that is to say not without torque'. He expands upon this point, noting that he had no wish to argue against the 'F.L. [Fitzgerald-Larmor] effect, which he believes in, but it requires proof to be flawless. He thinks that Larmor should try the experiment if it can be made sufficiently sensitive. There may be a question over a null result is not due the the effect being too small to observe, which explains [Victor] Cremieu's failure. 28 November 1901