From The Rev. Conybeare W. Bruce, M.A., F.R.A.S.
St. Nicholas’ Rectory, Cardiff,
July 17th, 1880.
My Dear Mr. Calver,—You will have been looking for some news of me and the 12″. I have purposely delayed writing until I was really in a position to say something definite, and you had already heard my high opinion of the mirror. Let me at once say that that opinion has been more than justified. The mirror is a beauty. Canon Beechey and I got Jupiter and Saturn at 2.30 a.m. yesterday morning—and they were superb. The Canon declared enthusiastically, that he “had never seen Saturn anything like that,” and the last thing he said to me on the subject as I parted with him to-day was, “You have got a very fine instrument indeed.”
If I could add anything more in its praise it would be this, that I am really going to build a new observatory for it—my present one is too small and cramped.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed.)
Mr. G. Calver.
(Another Letter from the same Gentleman.)