Royal Institution | 9 Octr 1838
My dear Sir
Your request1 I esteem a great honor & it will be to me strong encourage‑ment to continue working. I sincerely thank you for such encouragement for I sometimes when I set to to revise & criticise my own notions tremble least I have made some great mistake as in the last papers on induction2, but then I take courage again remembering that I have not been importantly corrected (in my own opinion at least) in any of the foregone papers and so go on[.]
Your letter has made me search through all my papers for what I believed I had not & it is too true that I have no copies but those for my own use prior to the 8th or 9th3 series except a waste paper third series4 which probably contains typographical errors. This I send simply to intimate my anxious desire to attend to your wishes[.]
I have had some thoughts of printing the whole series of papers in a single volume5 for at present as I know from numerous enquiries they cannot be obtained for love & hardly for money so expensive is it to purchase them in the Transactions[.] If I do print them you shall have them complete6[.]
Ever Dear Sir | Yours Most faithfully | M. Faraday
Sir J.F.W. Herschell | &c &c &c &c
FARADAY, Michael (1833a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Third Series. Identity of Electricities derived from different sources. Relation by measure of common and voltaic Electricity”, Phil. Trans., 123: 23-54.
FARADAY, Michael (1839b): Experimental Researches in Electricity, London.
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