Faraday to Edward William Brayley   10 October 1833

R. Institution, | 10th Oct.,, 1833.

Dear Sir,

I prefer Mr. to Dr. but as letters, papers, etc, etc, are continually reaching me addressed Dr. I am obliged to acknowledge the title or they would miss their object. This it is which constrains me in part to assume the designation but wherever I am at liberty I like Mr. best-. Somehow it happened that the running title to the first and second series of researches was headed Dr.1 and I believe more for uniformity than any thing else it was continued in the third2. I do not know how it is in the fourth3; but in the fifth and future I think it shall return to Mr.4

Very truly yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley, Esq., | London Institution | Finsbury

1
Faraday (1832a, b), ERE1 and 2. This was not so. The running heads of both series had Mr. In any case Faraday did not receive his DCL until 21 June 1832, by which time both series had been printed.
2
Faraday (1833a), ERE3. The running head was Dr.
3
Faraday (1833b), ERE4. Also Dr.
4
Faraday (1833c), ERE5. Dr. was retained, as it was in subsequent series.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1833a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Third Series. Identity of Electricities derived from different sources. Relation by measure of common and voltaic Electricity”, Phil. Trans., 123: 23-54.

FARADAY, Michael (1833b): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Fourth Series. On a new Law of Electric Conduction. On Conducting Power Generally”, Phil. Trans., 123: 507-22.

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

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