HARRIS (M.W., Schoolmaster)

Autograph Letter Signed to  Robert Bellamy Clifton,  1836-1921, later F.R.S., for 50 years Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Oxford and the designer and director of the Clarendon laboratory, 1865-1915, congratulating him "on your name appearing so honorably in print ... I wish we could take any credit to ourselves at Church Hill but I think your best school has been at home", advising him to take a break for his health's sake, "You see I am still in the lecturing line ... I should think a paper on phosphorus, phosphorescent exhalations, Will o' the Wisp ... by Robert Bellamy Clifton Esq would have won a gold medal and thanks of the College, with a request ... that it might be published", the writer has "at last made a start" for himself as a tutor, "I shall be obliged ... if you will make it known", and hopes to come to town for "a chat over old times", 4 sides 8vo., 8 Brunswick Road, Western Road, Brighton, 5th July a little faint in places but perfectly legible

Clifton went up to St. John's, Cambridge in 1855 and was Professor at Owens College, Manchester, 1860-1865, before migrating to Oxford.

Item Date:  1853

Stock No:  52078      £75

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