Thomas Graham to Faraday   15 May 1837

Glasgow, May 15, 1837.

My dear Sir,

I have to thank you for sending the packet containing the German letter to the Sabloniere¹. From the arrangements which I had made for teaching in summer I was obliged to leave London on my return to Glasgow on the evening of Saturday May 6, but your packet was sent after me. It contained a letter introductory & recommendatory from Baron Alex. Humboldt to Lord Brougham², which I have forwarded to his Lordship as it was a sealed letter³, altho' I have I lost the opportunity of delivering it in person by my hasty departure.

From the University people I have had no communication up to this date. I am therefore still in suspense, & likely to be so for two or three weeks to come. With two or three years' more standing I would have felt more confident of the result. In the mean time I have taken care to furnish my friends in the College with the most satisfactory evidence of my capability for the duties of the office, so far as my health is concerned - respecting which I was surprized to find that absurd & exaggerated reports had got somehow or other into circulation in London.

Since my return I have got fairly again into my experiments on ammonia & the salts, a subject upon which I hope to be able to present a paper to the R. Society before the vacation⁴.

Dear Sir, I remain, | Yours with much regard & esteem | Tho. Graham

Address: Michael Faraday Esquire | D.C.L., F.R.S. &c | Royal Institution | London