Faraday to Alexander Dallas Bache   28 July 1840

Royal Institution | 28 July 1840

My dear Sir

I received your kind letters and also the copies of your report¹[.] Many thanks for the one for me; the other I gave to the Patrons of the Library as you directed. You must have worked very hard whilst you were in Europe and I only wonder how you could appear so disengaged as to spare even a moment for us or for any not immediately connected with your object[.]

Your earnest desire to cooperate in the great magnetic observations now going on I saw in the journals²[.] It is a good omen when men who have thought so much on the subject do agree & conjoin to obtain these great simultaneous results of a power at least as universal as the globe. No doubt the most important results will be obtained[.]

Will you return my respectful thanks to the Trustees of the Girard College for the Report which I have received. When the proper authorities of the Royal Institution meet I have no doubt they will take the earliest opportunity of offering their acknowledgement for the copy they have received[.]

If you communicate with Henry send my kindest remembrances to him. I received his excellent paper on Dynamic Induction³ some time ago & by our friend Mr. Petty Vaughan⁴ have within the last few days sent copies of some recent papers of mine⁵ both to you & him which I have no doubt will come to hand in due time. I hope you will accept them not merely as a proof of my grateful recollection of the especial kindness of you both but as an expression of the longing desire I have that in science & in all things England & America should advance hand in hand[.]

Pray remember me kindly to Mrs Bache & to my young friend⁶ who so obligingly offered me her place at the Hanover Square rooms.

Ever My dear Sir | Your obliged & faithful Servant | M. Faraday

President A.D. Bache | &c &c &c