Faraday to Thomas Hawkins   21 August 1837

Royal Institution | 21 Aug. 1837

Dear Sir

I have kept your letter long unanswered but extreme occupation on the one hand & the expectation of being at Brighton on the other has caused the delay. I received also the other day the paper containing the report of your evening1 & I am very glad you continue to work away at the subject. Your experiments are very interesting & will probably fall into some important place in the Science as we advance.

I am fagging very hard & have scarcely time to eat my meals so you must excuse a short letter[.]

Yours Very Truly | M. Faraday

Mr T. Hawkins

1
See Brighton Gazette, 17 August 1837, [p.4, col. b] for this account of Hawkins's lecture of 1 August 1837 to the Sussex Royal Institution on voltaic electricity.

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