Richard Phillips to Faraday   11 August 1821

Primrose near Clithero[e] | Saturday

Dear Faraday

I did not hear before I left town whether our paper was or not to be printed1. By this time you have undoubtedly learnt, & I only wish to state respecting it that I should like (if it be printed) to have about 1 doz printed for myself. M. Julin2 is not to be described as a manufacturer but possibly as M. Julin of Abo in Finland[.]

How get you on with the Electro Magnetism? I hear from the printer that he wants about a sheet. If your paper will make a sheet & a half let him keep other things back, if two sheets let it be divided into two. I forgot to ask whether any plate will be advisable; if it should there will be no objection but we must I am afraid give it with the next number3. But of this I leave you to judge. Pray let me hear from you by return of post, if only a few lines I shall be glad of them. I hope Mrs Faraday is well & beg you to present my best respects to her.

Hoping to hear from you by return of post

I remain | Yours very truly | R. Phillips

At James Thomson’s4 Esq


Address: Mr. Faraday | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | London

Postmark: 13 August 1821

1
Phillips and Faraday (1821).
2
Johan Jacob Julin (1787-1853, FBH). Chemical manufacturer. He had given a sample of what turned out to be a third chloro- carbon to Faraday and Phillips for analysis. Their preliminary work was a note following Julin (1821) where he announced its existence. See also letter 140 and Faraday Diary, 1 June 1821, 1: 46-7.
3
[Faraday](1821c, d) published in September and October respectively with the plate appearing in the latter issue.
4
James Thomson. Calico printer. See Baines (1824-5), 1: 614.

Bibliography

BAINES, Edward (1824-5): History, Directory, and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster, 2 volumes, Liverpool.

JULIN, Johan Jacob (1821): “On a peculiar Substance obtained during the Distillation of Nitric Acid”, Ann. Phil., 17: 216-7.

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