| RefNo | MS/242/46 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter from William Hyde Wollaston to Thomas Young |
| Date | 26 August 1801 |
| Description | Autograph letter, dated by postmark
Thanks Young for correcting an error in information he had added in haste. Wished his note had been burnt rather than sent. But Wollaston still unsure of Young's correction of the ration to 4:1.
Wollaston values Young's Bakerian [lecture], but he hasn't yet adopted the undulatory doctrine [light waves] into his creed and it may be some time before he repeats it with fluency. Wollaston fears that procrastination may be fatal to his refractions but will endeavour to rouse himself. |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA7947 | Young; Thomas (1773 - 1829); physician, physicist and Egyptologist | 1773 - 1829 |
| NA8298 | Wollaston; William Hyde (1766 - 1828); chemist, physicist and physiologist | 1766 - 1828 |