Faraday to Samuel Hunter Christie   14 November 1838

Royal Institution | 14 November 1838

My dear Sir

Professor Ehrenberg has honored me by requesting that I would in his name present to the Royal Society a copy of his magnificent work on Infusoria &c¹: you will receive it with this letter[.] I rejoice in having any part in the presentation of such a work from such a man to the Library of the Society.

I also beg you to make application to the President and Council in my name for leave to reprint from the Philosophical Transactions my Experimental researches in Electricity. The cost of obtaining them is so great that those who wish to have them cannot afford the purchase. If leave is granted me, it is my intention to make them into one Octavo volume with an Index². I would also beg the favour of the loan of the plates to the various papers as it is my wish to make the work as cheap as possible³[.]

I hope the Council will not think that I am asking too much or overrating the value of the papers to the public[.] Their reward of them at different times by the Copley & Royal Medals must be my excuse in this⁴[.]

I am My dear Sir | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

S.H. Christie Esq | Secretary | &c &c &c

Endorsed: M. Faraday Esq 14th Nov 1838. Ehrenberg's work on Infusoria presented to R.S. Leave to Reprint Experimental Researches in Electricity published in Phil. Trans.

Address: S.H. Christie Esq | Secretary | &c &c &c | Royal Society