Faraday to Robert Were Fox   23 January 1834

Royal Institution | 23 Jany 1834

My dear Sir

I had great pleasure in receiving your letter as you will perceive by its drawing upon you an answer per post but I have such opinion of your good will to us that I do not think I shall annoy you although I have time to say but little[.]

I had two papers1 waiting for you when your letter came to me, they are both in Coll. McInnes2 hands & I hope you will like them. Two others are in the hands of the R. Society3 and I have one upon the stocks4 and there are four more in prospect5. So I continue to work whether to purpose or not the scientific world will soon be able to judge[.]

I think more myself of the Seventh Series than of any other6. In it I have determined & proved the definite action of Electricity. But as I have often seen other men mistake themselves so I have some fears until others shall have examined & admitted or refused my data & principles[.]

If I ever come your way I shall not for a moment doubt your kindness but make my appearance at once[.] But I see no prospect at present. In the mean time when your instrument7 now at Mr. Watkins' is complete will you let it stand upon our table some Friday Evening for the observation of our Members at the Meeting?

I am My dear Sir | Very truly Yours | M. Faraday

Mr Fox

1
Faraday (1833b, c), ERE4 and 5.
2
John McInnes. Colonel in the Army. Later (1838) a Major- General. Army List. A member of the Royal Institution.
3
Faraday (1834a, b), ERE6 and 7.
4
Faraday (1834c), ERE8.
5
The next four "Experimental Researches in Electricity" were Faraday (1835a, b, 1838a, b), ERE9, 10, 11 and 12.
6
Faraday (1834b), ERE7.
7
Fox (1834).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1834b): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Seventh Series. On Electro-chemical Decomposition,continued. On the absolute quantity of Electricity associated with the particles or atoms of Matter”, Phil. Trans., 124: 77-122.

FARADAY, Michael (1834c): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Eighth Series. On the Electricity of the Voltaic Pile; its source, quantity, intensity, and general characters”, Phil. Trans., 124: 425-70.

FOX, Robert Were (1834): “Notice of an Instrument for ascertaining various Properties of Terrestrial Magnetism, and affording a permanent Standard Measure of its Intensity in every Latitude”, Phil. Mag., 4: 81-8.

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