Faraday to George Biddell Airy   10 March 1832

R Institution | March 10th 1832

Dear Sir

I fear if I remain silent until I send you a copy of my paper you will in the mean time think I am forgetting you; than which nothing can be farther from my thoughts[.] In consequence of new arrangements about reports¹ &c great delay has occurred in printing papers for the Phil Transactions and mine² have but just gone to press³. I am quite proud to think that you expect they will be worth looking at[.]

Many thanks to you for your kindness in sending me your excellent papers⁴[.] I only wish I could understand them so as to do your ability justice[.] But I have been convinced by long experience that if I wish to be respectable as a scientific man it must be by devoting myself to the unremitting pursuit of one or two branches only; making up by industry what is wanting in force[.]

I will not pretend to tell you what I think I have done in Magneto-electricity it would be too long a story but I do hope it will please philosophers & will be found to be entirely New[.]

I am | My dear Sir | Most faithfully yours | M. Faraday

Professor Airy | &c &c &c