Faraday to Eilhard Mitscherlich   24 January 18381

Royal Institution | 24 Jany 1837 [sic]

My dear Sir

I write at present for the sake of introducing to you either by letter or personally Mr. Croft2 a friend of mine who may have occasion to consult you on a matter relating to chemical study[.] But I will leave him to explain his own object[.]

I would have sent also some papers, as the most appropriate offering I could make to you but they are not quite ready so that I must wait for another oppor‑tunity3. Many thanks for all your kind remembrances of me. I have been so electrically occupied of late that I feel as if hungry for a little chemistry: but then the conviction crosses my mind that all these things hang together under one law & that the more haste we make onwards each in his own path the sooner shall we arrive, and meet each other, at that state of knowledge of natural causes from which all varieties of effects may be understood & enjoyed[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Your faithful friend | M. Faraday

Profr. Mitscherlich | &c &c &c

1
Dated on the basis that Croft entered the University of Berlin in 1838.
2
Henry Holmes Croft (1820-1883, DCB). Chemist who spent 3 1/2 years studying with Mitscherlich.
3
Faraday (1838a, b), ERE11 and 12.

Please cite as “Faraday1063,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1063