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Correspondence from William Sturgis Bigelow to Elihu Thomson
56 Beacon Street Boston
Aug. 7, 1916.
Dear Prof. Thomson:—
Pray pardon my delay in answering yours of Aug. 2nd. It reached me at the other end of the state. As Mr. Crowley answers my questions by number, I had to wait until my secretary could look up the draft of the letter and identify them. I send herewith his letter and my questions. His letter seems clear, all but the first and last lines, which, with the odd red stamp on the first page, suggest that he may possibly be some kind of crank.
I am very glad to hear that you have the subject in hand and hope that, when you have got far enough, you will communicate your results to the Academy. Of course you know the literature of the subject better than I do, but a case occurred some thirty years ago at Beverly Farms in the house of one of my own family, where, during a heavy thunder-storm, a luminous ball floated in through an open kitchen window, moved slowly, like a soap-bubble, toward the range, where it shrank up and disappeared without exploding. The range had a water-back. Unfortunately the cook was the only person who saw it, but she told a straight story of what she had seen.
Mr. Crowley asks two questions, which I have taken the liberty of telling him I have referred to you.
Yours sincerely,
William Sturgis Bigelow
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