Faraday to Edward William Brayley   11 March 1834

Royal Institution | 11 March 1834

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for the copy of your edition of Parkes 1[.] I have no doubt it will be much improved - I have but very little time to look into it at present for I have Mrs Somervilles2 book & Prouts3 also on hand & can rarely take them up.

With regard to reports of my papers4 I am so engaged in writing new ones5 that I really have not time for it. I am very sorry you do not get them from the R.S. quicker for I wanted to refer to them in the Proceedings of the Friday Evenings. Even these I have not been able to bring up as yet[.]

Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley Esqr | &c &c

1
Samuel Parkes (1761-1825, DNB). Chemist and writer on chemistry. Parkes (1834) was revised by Brayley.
2
Somerville (1834).
3
William Prout (1785-1850, DSB). Physician and chemist. Prout (1834) was the eighth Bridgewater Treatise.
4
For the Phil.Mag..
5
Faraday (1834c), ERE8 on which he was working at this time. See Faraday, Diary, 12 February to 21 March 1834, 2: 1504-1737.

Bibliography

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.

PARKES, Samuel (1834): The Chemical Catechism, 13th edition, London.

PROUT, William (1834): Chemistry Meteorology and the Function of Digestion Considered with reference to Natural Theology, London.

SOMERVILLE, Mary (1834): On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, London.

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