John White Webster1 to Faraday   20 July 1839

Cambridge U.S.A. July 20th 1839

Dear Sir

A friend having called upon me to inform me of his departure for London, I have taken so good an opportunity of sending you a late paper containing an account of two very electrical ladies 2 - thinking you may not see our papers & that the account may not be copied into any in G.B. You will have seen an account of the electrical lady published some time since in Prof. Silliman's Journal3.

I am Sir | With great respect | Your Obedient Servant | J.W. Webster


Address: To | Michael Faraday D.C.L | F.R.S &c | London

1
John White Webster (1793-1850, DAB). Professor of Chemistry at Harvard, 1824-1849.
2
Mounted here also is a cutting from the Daily Advertiser and Patriot,20 July 1839, entitled "Animal Electricity" by Dr Hoquin (unidentified), translated from the Journal de Smyrne.
3
Hosford (1838).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1839a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Fifteenth Series. Notice of the character and direction of the electric force of the Gymnotus”, Phil. Trans., 129: 1-12.

HOSFORD, Willard (1838): “Extraordinary case of electrical excitement”, Am. J. Sci., 33: 394-8.

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