Faraday to Benjamin Abbott   c25 June 1813

Dear Abbott

With this Letter you will receive an hasty and imperfect abridgement of a paper of Sr. H’s on the new detonating Compound Azotone[.] I could have wished that it had been fuller & more perfect but the time allowed me was too short for anything farther as it is I hope you will be contented with it and if it contains any facts with which you are as yet unacquainted my time has not been mispent in the writing of it. It will appear I should suppose in the next volume of the Philosophical Transactions and then perhaps you will see it in a more perfect state1[.]

I have neither time nor room at present to recommence the subject of Lectures & shall therefore leave it to a future opportunity before which I hope to have three or four sheets at least of manuscript from you.

I remain in full expectation dear Abbott| Yours Sincerely | M. Faraday

1
Davy, H. (1813b). This summary of Faraday’s, on the same sheet as the letter, is not transcribed here. The original of Davy’s paper, in Faraday’s hand, is in RS MS PT 7.28 and is dated 20 June 1813; it was read 1 July 1813.

Bibliography

DAVY, Humphry (1813b): “Some further Observations on a new detonating Substance”, Phil. Trans., 103: 242-51.

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