Faraday to Charles Tomlinson   7 March 1835¹

Royal Institution | 7 March 1835

Sir

I have read your paper² with a good deal of interest but I am not so fully acquainted with the subject as to justify me in giving a strong opinion on the matter i.e. I am not sufficiently aware of what has been done to be able to say whether such results have been obtained before. I think it is a pity that you have not appended the new conclusions to the paper which I understand you to say it justifies for as you well observe the great point in Philosophy is to establish new laws and not merely new facts or new variations of old ones.

I return you the paper as you desire and am | Your Very Obliged Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

Charles Tomlinson Esq