On writing to you at present it is merely to announce that I shall be able to send you a copy of my recent papers on Electricity 1 &c &c in the course of a week provided I find means of conveyance. I thought of writing to you immediately after I had written to M. Hachette some time ago, but the experiments delayed me at first and then I found I could tell you so little in a letter, and that little as in the case of my letter to M. Hachette was so liable from my bad writing perhaps to be misunderstood that I thought it better to wait 'till the paper was printed.
The time between the reading & the printing has been however sadly prolonged in consequence of new regulations at our Royal Society and has far exceeded what I thought would be required. I hope that when you receive the papers you will think them worth having : I have felt great pleasure in carrying on the investigation and think it is an important step; but no man is well fitted to judge his own works.
I have heard in some way that you have not received a copy of my paper on the arrangements of particles on vibrating surfaces 2 &c &c which I sent to you with several others to MM. Gay-Lussac, Arago, D'Arcet, Berthier, Hachette, Despretz, Sérullas, Becquerel and the Academy of Sciences & Philomatic Society. I sent them by the means of our Assistant Secretary 3 to the Academy of Sciences with the Royal Society Box being assured they would be given to those friends to whom they were addressed.
If you really have not received it, I must send you another copy but I hope you will, when you write me again, tell me how I shall send. I am afraid my other friends have not received their copies. I am still hard at work on Magnetism &c &c & hope yet to get new results.
I am My dear Sir Your very Obliged & faithful Servant M. Faraday
Please cite as “L946,” in Ɛpsilon: The André-Marie Ampère Collection accessed on 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/ampere/letters/L946