Faraday to Henry Thomas De La Beche   8 February 1839

Royal Institution | 8th February 1839

My dear Sir,

I understand you wish to know my opinion of my Friend Mr Richard Phillips as an analytical chemist and in relation to Geological Mineralogy. Now his character in these respects is or ought to be so well known that I am really ashamed to say any thing respecting it for I cannot help feeling that it is I who require the testimony rather than he. In the analysis of mineral or inorganic substances there is no man whom I would trust sooner than him, and surely his various communications in the Annals of Philosophy and Philosophical Magazine as well as elsewhere prove his extensive acquaintance with the minerals and mines of strata¹.

I am, | My dear Sir, | most truly yours | W. [sic] Faraday

T.F. [sic] De la Beche Esqre