William Henry to Faraday   9 October 1822

Dear Sir

I inclose a little sketch of your apparatus which I wished to insert in my next edition1. Not having access to the vol. of the Quarterly Journal containing your paper, you will greatly oblige me by favoring me with a description of its use & objects, as brief as is consistent with perspicacity; and if you would favor me with it by this time tomorrow, I shall be still further obliged, as the engraver will want the drawing for a wood cut.

I hope to see you (and Mr Brande also) in a day or two; but business has taken me lately very much to the city.

Yours very faithfully | Will Henry

Tavistock Hotel | Wednesday Morning

The drawing is by Mr. Farey2, and, as you will perceive not perspective but orthographic

If you see any thing incorrect in the Drawing, be kind enough to point it out.


Address: M. Faraday Esq | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street

Postmark: 9 October 1822

1
See Henry, W. (1823), 1: 198 for the illustration and description of Faraday’s double device to show electro-magnetic rotation.
2
Joseph Farey. See Henry, W. (1823), 1: iv. Otherwise unidentified.

Bibliography

HENRY, William (1823): The Elements of Experimental Chemistry, 9th edition, 2 volumes, London.

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