Faraday to Gerard Moll   4 June 1832

R Institution | June 4th 1832

My dear Sir

It is a long while since I wrote to you and it is very possible I should have made my fault greater but that Mr Winckebach¹ tells me you are expecting to hear from me. I am indeed a very bad correspondent & forgetful of the proper reciprocities but I hope you will excuse me for it is only very heavy duties & ill health that prevent me from attending as I ought to do to my friends[.]

With regard to your last letter², I never troubled myself about Dr. Brewster's attack on us both³ & believe that he is by this time thoroughly ashamed of it. Some friends wondered why I did not reply to it but (speaking with real humility) I felt I should be conferring dignity upon the paper in his Journal. My answer in the eyes of Philosophic men is I hope given in the Experimental Researches in Electricity a copy of which I hope has long since reached you⁴[.]

Herewith I send you a translation of Nobili & Antinori's paper with notes by myself⁵. You will perceive by them that I think I have not been quite fairly used but without entering into minutiae[.] I should be glad to know when you favour me with a letter (though I have no right to expect one) whether you agree with me or not in the rule of conduct referred to at the end of the last note p13. &c &c⁶[.]

I hope to see you in London this summer at last if Mr. Winckebach tells me aright.

Till then & always | I am | My dear Sir | Your Obliged & faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Professor Moll | &c &c &c