Faraday to John William Parker1   19 September 18212

Ramsgate | Wednesday Mg

Dear Sir

I have not seen the sheet of the Miscellanea and am anxious about them. I hope you got a description of 2 apparatus for Electro Magnetic motions from me3. They are to go into the Miscellanea. Probably you will have sent off the sheets before this reaches you but if not or if you think they need not come to me take all possible care of the sense for my writing is not plain and pray write to me here that I may know to a certainty how things are arranged, for I do not like suspense[.] My direction is Mr Faraday at Mrs Newport4 5 Hardres Street, High Street Ramsgate[.] Will you also do me the favour to put the following lines into a cover and send them by the 2d post to this direction

Mr Woodham5 | Mr Baldwin6 | Bridge Street Blackfriars

I am dear Sir [MS torn] Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Mr Parker

Let me know in your letter by what coach you send the <<shee>>ts & if not off yet direct them to me as above MF

1
John William Parker (1792–1870, ODNB). Printer and publisher.
2
Dated on the basis that this was written shortly before both the publication of the Quart.J.Sci.issue referred to here (in early October, RI MS F8, pp.392-3) and Faraday’s return to London at the beginning of October (Faraday to Wollaston, 30 October 1821, letter 154, volume 1).
3
Faraday (1821b).
4
Unidentified.
5
Unidentified.
6
Charles Baldwin (1774–1869, ODNB). Printer and publisher.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1821b): “On the Vapour of Mercury at common Temperatures”, Quart. J. Sci., 10: 354-55.

Please cite as “Faraday0149a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0149a