William Thomas Brande to Faraday   31 July 1840

Calverley Park | Tunbridge Wells | 31 July 1840

My dear Faraday,

Accept my best thanks for your 16th and 17th Series¹ and also for your correspondence with Dr Hare²: I much admire the tone and spirit of the latter - especially XVIII & XXXV. I am afraid I shall make a muck of the chapter "Electricity" in my new Edition³. I had set to work to rewrite it entirely, but had scarcely gone through a few pages, before you and Daniell came pouring in new matter of such interest and importance and so deeply affecting the very foundations of much of our reasoning upon the subject, that I have determined to wait a while to see "what will come next" and have therefore endeavoured to dovetail your new theory of induction with my old matter⁴. I am quite aware that I have made a awkward piece of patchwork, but I hope I shall not in any way mislead the student, and that I shall by waiting, be better able to remould the whole article upon some future occasion. There are moreover many points upon which I wait a little of your kind verbal aid and this reminds me that you did hold out something like a glimmering of hope that we might see you here. I assure you there is much in and about Tunbridge Wells that would interest and amuse you, and perhaps still more, Mrs Faraday, to whom I beg my kind remembrances. I would, indeed do say come to us: and we will make you as comfortable as we can, but if you prefer the independence of a lodging, there are all denominations and also a boarding house, and an excellent hotel. Only remember that my holy days end on the 1st of October. At all events write me a line to say how you are, what you are about, and whether we may entertain any hope of seeing you here. Mrs Brande⁵ desires to be remembered to you[.]

Believe me that I am always | very sincerely yours | William Thomas Brande