Faraday to Charles Babbage   25 May 1837

Royal Institution | 25 May 1837

My dear Sir

I thank you most heartily for your Ninth Bridgwater Treatise 1[.] It is not often that such volunteers come into the field. I have begun it & I see you tomorrow night2, which I intend at present, I hope to say I have finished it[.]

Ever Your Very obliged | M. Faraday

C. Babbage Esq | &c &c &c

1
Babbage (1837).
2
At the Friday Evening Discourse by William Snow Harris of 26 May 1837 "On the phenomena of thunder-storms". See Lit.Gaz., 3 June 1837, pp.351-2.

Bibliography

BABBAGE, Charles (1837): The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise. A Fragment, London.

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