Faraday to Jöns Jacob Berzelius   5 May 1832

R Institution London | May 5th, 1832

Dear Sir

We have been alarmed here by reports of your death but rejoiced again by finding it was false. This circumstance must account to you for the delay in sending you a copy of my paper on Experimental researches in Electricity ¹ but of which I now beg your acceptance[.]

I have to thank you for being the means some time since of sending me some Vanadiate of Ammonia from M Sefstrom². I have written to him since & sent him a paper by another channel & hope my communication has reached him for I thought that it had as through you been closed for ever.

That you may long live to advance Chemical Science and interest and delight Your contemporaries is the Earnest Wish

of Dear Sir | Your very Obliged & faithful | M. Faraday

M. Berzelius | &c &c &c