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Document number: 2672
Date: Wed 29 Mar 1833
Dating: year from Faraday; day/month Frank James from Faraday's notebooks
Recipient: FARADAY Michael
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Univ McGill Libraries Rare Book & Special Coll Montreal
Collection number: MS 173
Last updated: 22nd February 2010

To Mr Faraday

Wednesday
1833 <1>

Dear Sir

Will you allow your assistant while I am absent in the country, to fuse a small quantity of glass for me in a crucible mixed with oxide of Chromium to colour it green. We tried it yesterday, and succeeded in making a yellowish green glass but we had not heat enough.

Have you ever remarked how a capillary glass tube conducts away electricity, it blows through it like wind, I think this is the reason the little arrangement I made yesterday would not act well, nor do I think the arrangement you proposed would act well, if inclosed in a glass tube.

Yours truly
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. ‘1833’ written in Faraday’s hand. Dated 29 March 1833 by Frank James on the basis of WHFT's notebook J entry for 28 March 1833 (Fox Talbot Collection, the British Library). See Frank James, The Correspondence of Michael Faraday v. 2, 1832–1840, p. 110.

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