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TitleLetter from Margaret Lindsay Huggins, 90 Upper Tulse Hill, S W [South West], to Sir Joseph [Larmor]
CreatorHuggins; Margaret Lindsay (1848 - 1915); Née; Murray; wife of William Huggins FRS; Irish-English astronomer; spectroscopist
RecipientLarmor; Sir Joseph (1857-1942); British theoretical physicist
Date15 August 1911
DescriptionHuggins expresses her appreciation for her friends through a difficult period of grief [following the death of Sir William Huggins]. She discusses possibly meeting Larmor at Cambridge, as she has been invited by the Newalls. She would like to see the Observatories and pay a visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum. She then discusses further the matter of Larmor dividing his time between the work 'no other man can do' and the 'hurly-burly of Parliament', and touches on the strikes and the matter of Home Rule in Ireland. Huggins mentions a 'painful' experience with Dr [George Johnstone] Stoney, who had written to Huggins saying he had an interesting information regarding Sir William Huggins. However, she reports that there were no words of remembrance or sympathy, 'but a paper designed to coerce or coax me into bolstering up the Stoney views on Mars, and other matters..a more shocking case of egotism, there never was!'. She comments that Stoney's daughters are also 'difficult to get on with. Everyone finds them so'.
Extent16p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
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CodePersonNameDates
NA7894Larmor; Sir; Joseph (1857 - 1942); physicist1857 - 1942
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