He died quite young (age 41) of a fever, so it is unlikely that anyone would have been anticipating his death a full year before it occurred. The reason she believes the letter was actually written on 6 January 1906 is Huggins's brief mention in the last paragraph of Charles Jasper Joly who was Astronomer Royal for Ireland from 1897 until his death on 4 January 1906. 1905, Huggins had made a common error, one we all make at the beginning of a new year: he has written the year as 1905 instead of 1906. In volume MS/605 (2) letter 891, from Huggins to Joseph Larmor (Lm.891) which Huggins has dated 6 Jany. The first page of the letter listed as LM 802 is clearly a letter on its own written several days later. The front of letters LM 801 and LM 802 have been transposed, the front page of LM 801 should be the first page of LM 802, as it is a part of a letter with a list of points which continue in the second and subsequent pages of LM 802.
In volume MS/605(i), letters from Margaret Huggins to Larmor, there is a mistake in the numbering. In bound volumes, alphabetically by name of correspondentĪlphabetical list of correspondents. Letters on a variety of topics, including his work on electromagnetic theory, optics, analytical mechanics, and geodynamics.Ħ volumes, 7 boxes (small) Larmor, Sir Joseph (1857-1942) Knight Physicist Letters to Sir Joseph Larmor, theoretical physicist and Physical Secretary of the Royal Society
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