Letters from Dalton

Mainly on meteorological matters. Ί mentioned in one o f my letters my preparing a Paper on Springs &c. it was read last sixth day evening (see 26). .. .made a thermometer that goes from freezing Mercury to boiling Mercury which I find very useful/ Reports on ‘some dreadful accidents by Fire here this Winter. A cotton Factory burned down one evening entirely: damage, 12,000, pardy insured/ LP typescript (see below) 167.26 Dalton, Jonathan, Kendal Manchester, 6 Feb. 1805 On way to London, stayed a night in Birmingham where he spent some hours with James Watt. Stayed in London three days ‘in which time I provided myself the needful apparatus, principally o f Jones. .. .My subscription has gone on with wonderful rapidity [probably to his Manchester lectures]; there are probably nearly 80 on the list, and may be many more before I can be ready’ LP typescript (see below) 16 7.28 Dalton, Jonathan, Kendal Manchester, 30 Oct. 1817 Describes an assault in Manchester when his pocket-book was stolen. Reports that his ‘highly valued friend, Peter Ewart,’ was involved in a very serious accident near Blackburn, as the result o f a post chaise overturning. Visited by M. Biot on his way back from the Shedand Isles. Asks if he had mentioned that the French Academy o f Sciences had recendy elected him a corresponding member. Has received an invitation from the Birmingham Philosophical Society to give a short course of lectures for 80 guineas. ‘I have got at least 160 pages o f my second volume o f chemistry printed.’ (see 9) LP typescript The four letters listed immediately above were presented to the Society in 1922 by Colonel Allen o f Castle Combe, Chippenham, who believed that they had been purchased at an auction sale. They joined the Society’s collection o f letters between the brothers dating from 1793 to 1824. A ll the letters were destroyed in 1940. Henry in his biography 480 gives extracts from three o f the letters and there were quotations in an article in the Manchester City News, 18 November 1922. This seemed to be all that survived until, in 1995, what appears to be a complete transcription o f the four letters was found in an old file, typed on eight sheets o f Lit. and Phil, headed paper o f the 1920s. The letters are included in Memoirs, 1993-4, 132, 169-76

167.3 Daubeny, C .G .B ., [Oxford] Manchester, 14 Jan. 1841 Acknowledgement o f Daubeny’s Supplement. Listed in Thackray 492.5 Magdalen College, Oxford, mss 400/88

3° 167.4 D avies, John, Edinburgh Manchester, 16 January 1823. 1 sheet o f 4p. 23 x 1 9 cms. Reports a lecture by Milligan on sea-sickness; suggests he conroverts Dr. Wollaston’s mechanical principles arising from the motion o f the vessel as effecting the human body. Describes the storm on 5 December and the salt water in the rain on which he has written a paper 66. Includes his account for 5 6 lectures at i /6 d a lecture M PL M628/1 167.5 Dickinson, Joseph, Maryport Manchester, 10 Mar. 1794 Colour blindness CPL 167.6 Dickinson, Joseph, Maryport Manchester, 13 Apr. 1794 Colour blindness CPL 167.7 Dockray, Benjam in Manchester, io ju n e 1822 Plans for a visit to Paris with Dockray. See Henry 480, 164-8. Text in Thackray 492.5 M PL 167.8 Em m ett, Anthony, Newcasde on Tyne Manchester, 14 July 1835 Firedamp in mines. Text in Thackray 492.5 RS Reference: MM 1 /9 167.81 Em m ett, Anthony, Newcasde on Tyne Manchester, 15 Dec. 1835 Asks if he would take meteorological observations in Bermuda. Text in Thackray 492.5 RS Reference: MM 1 / 10 167.82 Em m ett, Anthony, Messrs. Cox and Co., Arm y Agents, London Manchester, 13 Feb. 1836 Acknowledges receipt o f samples o f air and reports from Emmett on aurora of 18 November which was seen in USA on 17th. Urges him to take air samples near the sea and observe any tidal phenomena. Text in Thackray 492.5 RS Reference: M M i /1 1 167.9 E w art, Peter, junior n.d. Sale o f Newton’s Principia. Listed in Thackray 492.5 D U

167.94 Faraday, M ichael?, London Manchester, 29 July 1840 Papers on phosphates and arseniates not accepted by Philosophical Transactions', intends to publish them independendy. See 13. Text in Thackray 492.5 R I 167.95 Faraday, M ichael, London Manchester, 3 Sep. 1840 Effect o f lead on health. Text in Thackray 492.5 R I 168 Fell, John, Ulverston Manchester, 5 Apr. 1801. 1 sheet o f 4p. 26 x 21 cms. Electrical experiments. Text in Thackray 492.5 SM 169 Fletcher, John Manchester, 17 Aug. 1829. 3p. Account o f an ascent o f Helvellyn and Saddleback with Jonathan Odey K FM 170 Fletcher, John, Greysouthen Cockermouth, 18 July 1824. 2p. About his portrait. Text in Thackray 492.5 K FM 170 .2 Forbes, J.D ., Edinburgh Edinburgh, i i Sep. 1834 Proposes to call on Professor Forbes. Text in Memoirs, 1973-7 4 ,116, 10 UStA 170.4 G ay-L u ssac, J .L ., Paris Manchester, 5 Aug. 1833 Introduces Major Emmett. Text in Thackray 492.5 RS Reference: M M 1 /7 171 Greenup, Ruth, Greenrig Kendal, 27 June 1792. 1 sheet of 2p. 21 x 17 cms. Describes his first visit to London. Ruth Greenup was Dalton’s aunt. Text in Brockbank 477. See also 167.22 MU 17 1 .5 H arrison, John, Manchester Manchester, 11 June 1840 ‘Please to send in the 3 or 4 sheets that I have sent you. I have altered my mind. I intend to get copper plates for the symbols and or Lithography. They are much better and cheaper. ..’ Harrison was the local printer

responsible for Phosphates and Arseniates 13 and Microcosmic Salt 14 M PL Reference: Brothers collection 9 17 2 H erschel, Sir John Manchester, 28 Feb. 1833. Text in Thackray 492.5 BL 173 H o gg, John, Holbeck Manchester, 19 Apr. 1825. 1 sheet o f 4р. 23 x 19 cms. Dispatch o f copy o f Meteorological essays SM 17 3 .2 Jam es, P.M., Birmingham Manchester, 31 Oct. 1817 Accepts offer o f accommodation while in Birmingham. Listed in Thackray 492.5 SF 17 3 .3 Jam es, P.M., Birmingham Manchester, 14 Apr. 1825 Sending portraits. Concern about boxes not yet received from Birmingham. Listed in Thackray 492.5 SF 174 See Suliot, T .E . 178 .2 174 .2 Lord Provost and M agistrates, Edinburgh Manchester, 14 Dec. 1832 Supports J.D. Forbes as candidate for the Chair o f Natural Philosophy, Edinburgh. Text in Memoirs, 1973-74, 116 , 11-2 UStA 174.4 M arshall, John, Hallstead, Ullswater Manchester, 27 Sept. 1835 Introduces Mrs Sarah Lee who ‘intends to study the ichthyology o f the Lake D istrict’. She was the author o f Memoirs of Baron Cuvier and The fresh water

fishes of Great Bntain. Text in Thackray 492.5 TC C Reference: Add mss. C65 f3 6 174.5 Miller, W illiam, Edinburgh Manchester, 20 Nov. 1827 Approval o f proposals for the advertising and distribution o f his New system of chemicalphilosophy. Text in Thackray 492.5 NLS 174.8 N icholson, Cornelius, Kendal Manchester, 10 June 1830 Acknowledges election to Kendal Natural History and Scientific Society.