Royal Institution | 30 Jany 1836
Dear Madam
I make free to offer you as a mark of my sincere respect and of gratitude for your kind opinion of me a copy of my work on chemical manipulation1[.] Though unfitted for your own reading it will still have an interest in its utility to those for whom it was intended namely practical students[.]
You will be glad to hear that Lord Melbourne who lately did me the great favour to pass some foreign scientific articles at the Custom House2 which would not have been allowed but for such authority, in a letter with which His Lordship honoured me3, expressed his approbation of the course pursued on a late occasion as being that which was decidedly the best[.] This was the spontaneous opinion of His Lordship there being no allusion to that course on my part[.]
With the sincerest wishes for your health & happiness I am dear Madam Your much Obliged and faithful Servant | M. Faraday
Endorsed by Faraday: Mine to Lady M. Fox 20 Jany / 364 and to Miss Fox 30 Jany / 36
FARADAY, Michael (1830b): Chemical Manipulation, being instructions to students in chemistry, on the methods of performing experiments of demonstration or of research, with accuracy and success, 2nd edition, London.
Please cite as “Faraday0879,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0879