John Millington to Faraday   4 April 1834

187 South Third Street | Philadpa 4th April 1834

To Michl Faraday Esq | &c &c

My Dear Sir

Accept my best thanks for your letter¹ as well as for your kind attentions to my friend Dr. Richard Harland [sic] of this City, who was much gratified at seeing you, notwithstanding it was in so very cursory and hurried a manner owing to the Bustle of Cambridge at the time of the great and highly interesting meeting in which you was [sic] then engaged².- Dr. Harland [sic] has come back safely and is highly pleased with what he saw, and the attentions and kindness he met with while in England.- As to the Palladium you so kindly wrote me about, it would not answer my purpose.- The Rhodium was for the purpose of constructing a new Instrument for my friend Professor Bonnycastle³ (son of the late Prof. of same name at Woolwich⁴) in which he was desirous of introducing the most and least expansion of all metals by heat, but as it could not be procured the thing was given up. But I feel equally obliged to you for your kind offer of procuring that or any other choice article I might want from London and should have no objection to a small quantity of either or both as a specimen, because my depôt is now beginning to be very generally known throughout this country, and is the only place that the curious in science resort to for all that is uncommon or out of the way.- The present will be handed to you by my friend Mr John Farr⁵ of the House of Farr & Kunzi⁶ wholesale manufacturing chemists in this City, and he will tell you what we are doing in that way as far as the chemistry of commerce is concerned.- Mr. Farr was formerly of London, and indeed a neighbour of yours in Bond Street, but he has resided here many years, and like myself has become located & fixed, but is now revisiting england to see old friends, and the present state of improvements in all things, but especially in the manufacturing and in his own line, and as I know he will be gratified with your acquaintance, and you can give him the best information upon every topic, as well as the best Introductions to what he may wish to see and become acquainted with, I have great pleasure in giving him this introduction, and know that you will show him every attention that your leisure will permit, by which you will much oblige me, and you know you may always freely reciprocate if I can be of any service to yourself, or any of your friends on this side of the Atlantic.- I wish you could take a short trip and look at us, for I know you would be gratified and surprized.- My Friend Dr. Hare's Laboratory in the University of Pennsyva is truly magnificent in the size and expense of all its equipment.- We often talk of you, and he is very desirous of making you a present of some instruments of his own contrivance, such as his Sliding rod Eudiometer⁷ &c. &c. but fears you might not think them worth acceptance - He is a fine liberal minded man, - Have you his compendium of Chemistry⁸ in the Library - if not I will send you one, for altho I do not quite like the arrangement of the work, yet the wood cuts of apparatus (chiefly hi<<s>> own) are the best executed things I have ever seen. With Dr. Jacob Green⁹ Prof of Chemistry in Jefferson College I am very intimate, as well as with his Pupil Dr. Henry late of Albany with whose name you must be familiar from his researches in Electro Magm¹⁰. Green was in London & Paris in 1828 - do you recollect him? He was with Gray & our friend Mr. Jno Geo Children at the Brit Musm. and never speaks of the latter but with enthusiastic delight on account of his kind and friendly attentions to him.- But who can speak otherwise of this gentm.- My domestic happiness has been sadly cut up by the loss of poor Mrs. Millington¹¹ in her way from Mexico, to join me here, but my constant occupations in business prevent my thinking much of myself. I hope yourself and Mrs. Faraday continue well, and assure you it will always afford me sincere pleasure to hear from you. To my Friends, Mr Guillemard¹², Mr Brand[e], Solly Richd Phillips and all others not forgetting Mr Fincher¹³ I beg my best regards and am my Dear

Sir yours most faithfully | John Millington

Address: Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c | Royal Institution of Great Brit | Albemarle Street | London

Endorsed by Faraday: J. Farr | 7 Falcon St | Falcon Sq