H.M. CHRISTIE, EDWIN DUNKIN, WILLIAM
ELLIS, GEORGE STRICKLAND CRISWICK, W.
C. NASH, A.M.W. DOWNING, EDWARD W.
MAUNDER, W.G. THACKERAY, THOMAS LEWIS.
_Sir G.B. Airy, K.C.B., &c., &c.,
Astronomer Royal._
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH,
_1881, August 13_.
MY DEAR MR CHRISTIE,
and Gentlemen of the Royal Observatory,
With very great pleasure I have received your letter of August 11. I
thank you much for your recognition of the general success of the
Observatory, and of a portion of its conduct which--as you remark--can
scarcely be known except to those who are every day engaged in it: but
I thank you still more for the kind tone of your letter, which seems
to shew that the terms on which we have met are such as leaves, after
so many years' intercourse, no shadow of complaint on any side.
Reciprocating your wishes for a happy life, and in your case a
progressive and successful one,
I am,
My dear Mr Christie and Gentlemen,
Yours faithfully,
G.B. AIRY.
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