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Dear Sir/

I have sent to Kensington to my Mother’s care (N^o 26 Lower Phillimore Place) who will forward it to you, a copy of the Article Light which has appeared in a piecemeal kind of way in the Encyclop^a Metropolitana, ¹ of which I beg your acceptance. You will find mention made of some of your own interesting experiments in it. Should it not reach you in a few days, if an opportunity should occur you had better let it be enquired for.

I had long intended to write to you in answer to a letter rec^d from you some time ago, introducing M^r Key, ² whose views relative to the London University I should have been most happy to have forwarded had I possessed the slightest influence, on your recommendation, but having no connexion with the institution I could be of no service. M^r K. afterwards called on me relative to the appointment of a Professor at Virginia College and I found him a very agreeable intelligent man and regretted that circumstances afforded me little opportunity of seeing more of him. – The reason of my not writing was simply that I waited in continual expectation of being enabled to accompany my letter with the work in question, but was continually disappointed by the tardiness of the Engravers & have only now got my copies.

In hopes it may interest you I remain d^r Sir Yours truly
JFW Herschel