My dear Sir
Your welcome & prompt reply to my letter1 has just reached me: & I seize an opportunity of acknowledging it. I am most anxious to see your paper2 & hope Hudson lost no time in forwarding it.
If I understand you rightly, no one but Nobili had got a spark from a Natural Magnet before me[.] I have often repeated my experiment & got it quite under my command. I have shown the spark to Sir John Leslie, Dr. Hope & many others.
The history you give me of the transfusion of Information is a lesson to discoverers.
You would oblige me much by sending me Nobili's paper3 as I am going to print immediately in the R.S. Ed. Transactions a notice of my experiment which will be out in a few days4. If it is too large for an Admiralty Frank which Mr. Hudson could probably procure for me, you would very much oblige me by addressing it to me, care of Sir William Forbes & Co5 Edinburgh.
Believe me dear Sir Yours | most sincerely | James D. Forbes
Greenhill | Edinburgh | 18th Apr. 1832
Endorsed by Faraday: Answered April 26, 1832
Address: Michael Faraday Esq | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | London
FARADAY, Michael (1832a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. On the Induction of Electric Currents. On the Evolution of Electricity from Magnetism. On a new Electrical Condition of Matter. On Arago's Magnetic Phenomena”, Phil. Trans., 122: 125-62.
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