Faraday to Richard Phillips   c June 1823

Dear Sir,

You did me the favour to insert in the second and third volume of the Annals of Philosophy, a paper which I had written, entitled, “A Historical Sketch of Electromagnetism.”1. To that paper, the initial of my Christian name only was affixed. Wishing now, for reasons which will shortly be made public2, to acknowledge myself as the author of it, I will thank you to insert this letter in the Annals as an assent on your part to the correctness of the statement which it contains.

I remain, dear Sir, Yours, very truly, | M. Faraday


1
[Faraday] (1821c, d, 1822d).
2
That is the publication in July of Faraday (1823d) where he acknowledged authorship on p.290-1.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1823d): “Historical Statement respecting Electro-Magnetic Rotation”, Quart. J. Sci., 15: 288-92.

Please cite as “Faraday0200,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0200