'You may be quite sure that a generous mention of my work for you made at the Royal Institution will not only please me and my friends, but will call for an equally public acknowledgement on my part of the fact that this achievement is essentially due to your inventions.
I shall have the opportunity at a lecture I am to give at our College Soiree held here during the Coronation week, and I shall be able to be guided what to say by the line taken by you in your lecture. I quite understand that you have to be cautious just now in your public utterances, and there is no doubt that your success has made many opponents desire to take the credit from you and ascribe it to some one else. I did not consider it advisable for me to say anything apropos of Thompson's articles because I felt that their very delicate matters may have to be discussed one day in a Court of Law and the less said about them the better. That however need not prevent you and me from freely acknowledging in general terms our relative shares in the work in which we are both engaged and you may rely on me that I shall not fail to repay any kindness you may show me at the earliest possible occasion in the way you deserve.'