Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein   6 February 1837

London | Royal Institution | 6 Feby 1837

My dear Sir

I now write to you upon the result of my inquiries. In the first place with regard to your Paper¹. I did not wish to present it unless I thought it would in all probability be printed in the Transactions of the Royal Society; and I found that that might not be the case because the Council seldom if ever print papers in the Transactions upon subjects which have recently been dealt upon & are matter of communication to other societies or Transactions or Journals; unless the paper sent to them has not some decisive views or some new discovery on the subject. But that I might be quite right, I showed your paper to some who would have been consulted & finding them to be of opinion that it would not come within the rules which regulate the Council I have kept it back[.]

If you approve therefore I will alter the wording of those parts which require it (or perhaps you will send me the alterations) and then I will send it to the Philosophical Magazine[.] If printed there & you wish it I could have 100 copies or less of the paper itself printed off separately by paying the expence of the paper or work but I do not know how I should send them to you[.] The copies of the papers I sent to you went from the Royal Society through the Ambassadors hands & very probably are lying at Berne[.] But I cannot tell[.]

With respect to the Magneto electric machine, I inquired at Newmans the price of them: I found those of full size were 12 Guineas by themselves & 14 Guineas with the different apparatus required to heat a wire, shock the system, decompose water &c. If you approve the price I will order one but send me word how it shall be addressed.

I am (in haste) | My dear Sir | Very Truly Your Obliged | M. Faraday

Address: Dr. C.F. Schoenbein | &c &c &c | Bâle | on the Rhein