Faraday to William Jerdan   13 August 1833

R Institution | 13 Aug. 1833

My dear Sir

I returned from Scotland last night[.] I am sorry I was not in town to help you. As the paper (mine) was read in at the R.S.1 and will come before the Members of the R Institution &c &c there will be opportunities one of which I shall seize to give you a correct condensed account of it2[.]

I am very much obliged to you for your vindication of my claims to the spark &c &c3. How difficult it would be without such as you for a man to keep that degree of character in Science & learning which is fairly his own.

I am | Dear Sir | Your Very Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

W. Jerdan Esq | &c &c &c

1
Faraday (1833c), ERE5. Read 22 June 1833. Reported as being read in Lit.Gaz., 22 June 1833, p.394.
2
See "Royal Society", Lit.Gaz., 15 February 1834, p.118 for an account of Faraday's work on electro-chemistry. Lit.Gaz., 15 March 1834, p.194 gave a short account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 7 March 1834 on "Electro- chemical decomposition", but referred back to this Royal Society account for a fuller discussion.
3
See "British Association", Lit.Gaz., 3 August 1833, p.490 where Faraday's priority as the first to obtain a spark from a magnet was stated forcefully.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1833c): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Fifth Series. On Electro-chemical Decomposition”, Phil. Trans., 123: 675-710.

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