Peter Mark Roget to Faraday   27 March 1840¹

Bernard Street | Russell Square | March 27th 1840

My dear Sir,

I was much delighted last night to hear the reasonings you so cogently urge, in the concluding portion of your paper, against the philosophical character of the Voltaic contact theory²; entertaining, as I have always done, the same opinion respecting it as you do. These views I have distinctly expressed in the concluding chapter of my Treatise on Galvanism, published in 1829, as part of the Library of Useful Knowledge³. The last paragraph, in particular, is so much in point, & coincides so exactly with your line of argument, that I beg to enclose a copy of it⁴: & you will perhaps not think me unreasonable if I request the favour of your referring to it, either in the text or in a note, in that part of your paper⁵. I need hardly say that I should feel much gratified, if you would quote this passage; for I am naturally ambitious of being ranked among those who have viewed this matter in the same light with yourself[.]

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

M. Faraday Esq | &c &c