Peter Mark Roget to Faraday   2 February 1838

Bernard St | Feb. 2d: 1838

My dear Sir,

I was much surprised & concerned to find that Mr Richard Taylor, in his impatience to give to the world the substance of your paper lately read at the Royal Society¹, had published in the last number of the Philosophical Magazine a very incorrect copy of the abstract intended to form a part of the Proceedings of the Society², without waiting for the numerous corrections it required, & which I had made in the proof sheet. I write to you immediately about it, lest you might have imputed to me the commission of so many blunders as are contained in the account thus printed. Such carelessness on the part of the printer has never yet occurred, & I shall take care that it is not repeated but I thought it due to you to send this explanation. Mr Taylor is I think bound to make reparation by inserting in the next number all the errata & emendations³.

Dear Sir, | yours very faithfully | P.M. Roget

M. Faraday, Esq | &c &c

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