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Sir
John Ambrose Fleming
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DOCUMENTS:
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Letter to Marconi May 21, 1902
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This manuscript letter was sent to
Marconi by
Ambrose Fleming in reply to correspondence received. The letter thanks
Marconi for acknowledging Fleming's work on the development of a
station
at Poldhu. The letter continues: '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. |