Royal Institution | 28 Jany 1837
My dear Sir
About a fortnight ago I received your letter of the 26 December last by Post1: and was so much interested by the facts that I took it to the Editor of the Philosophical Magazine for insertion in his periodical: it is now printed and on Monday, the day after tomorrow will be published2. I have not added a word to it for I think with you that at present we do not understand the subject. The Editor showed me a translation of your paper from Poggendorf[f]3 on my explication or imaginary explication, which I was glad to see he was going to print4, & to that I added a note in my own name5 merely saying that I was not at any time satisfied with my own idea & that neither you nor Mousson6 had expressed it in the same manner that I had ventured to put it forth. Whether this will be in the next No of the Philosophical Magazine or not I do not know. But you will see them in due time[.]
Only yesterday I received the packet which you referred to in your last letter though your letter in the packet is dated 26 November so it has been a long time on the Road7[.] Will you do me the favour to express my sincere & humble thanks to the Society of Basle for the great honor it has done me[.] I only hope I may prove worthy of it but will trust on the kindness of the members to think I will try to deserve it.
With regard to your paper for the Royal Society8. I do not want to read it being anxious to acknowledge your letters by tonights post & the time is almost gone[.]
I am My dear Sir | Your obliged & faithful Servant | M. Faraday
Professor Schoenbein | &c &c &c
Address: Professor C.F. Schoenbein | &c &c &c | Bâle
FARADAY, Michael (1837): “Note from Professor Faraday ... on the preceding Paper [Schoenbein (1837b)]”, Phil. Mag., 10: 175-6.
MOUSSON, Joseph Rudolph Albert (1836): “Sur un moyen d'expliquer les anomalies que présente l'acide nitrique dans son action sur les métaux oxidables”, Bibl. Univ., 5: 165-77.
SCHOENBEIN, Christian Friedrich (1836e): “Bemerkungen über Faraday's Hypothese in Betreff der Ursache de Passivität des Eisens in Saltpetersäure”, Pogg. Ann., 39: 137-41.
SCHOENBEIN, Christian Friedrich (1837a): “Further Experiments on a peculiar Voltaic Condition of Iron”, Phil. Mag., 10: 133-5.
SCHOENBEIN, Christian Friedrich (1837b): “Remarks on Faraday's Hypothesis with regard to the Causes of the Neutrality of Iron in Nitric Acid”, Phil. Mag., 10: 172-4.
SCHOENBEIN, Christian Friedrich (1837c): “Experimental Researches on a peculiar Action of Iron upon Solutions of some Metallic salts”, Phil. Mag., 10: 267-76.
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