Volume 1
The life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs / by Silvanus P. Thompson.
- Silvanus P. Thompson
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs / by Silvanus P. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![letter of condolence on the death of her daughter, the wife of Dr. J. Hall Gladstone :— I know well that he [Dr. Gladstone], as well as you and David, cannot want the one great consolation. Yet I know too well how insufficient even the surest conviction that the loved one is happy, and the firmest hope of a transcendently happy meeting to come, are to mitigate the bitterness of the present grief. A photograph taken at this date of Sir William Thomson shows a face of infinite sadness. The shadow of his great sorrow lay for long across his life. — ee](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31360403_0001_0568.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
