Royal Institution, Dec. 24, 1841.
My Dear Sir - On reading your second letter to me in Silliman's Journal, (published July, 1841,)2 I wrote a brief answer back, but find from Dr. Silliman3, that it has been mislaid. I therefore send this brief note to say that I hope you will excuse any controversial reply. I do not find any reason to change my opinion as to the matters referred to in yours to me: and as far as I should have occasion to answer for my own part, I would rather refer readers of the Journal to my papers and my former reply4 to your first letter5. As to the new and important matter into which your last letter would lead me, I am not sufficiently clear in my mind, upon the evidence which we as yet have, to wish to enter into it at present.
Ever my dear Sir, | With highest esteem, yours very truly, | M. Faraday
Dr. Hare, &c. &c. &c.
FARADAY, Michael (1840c): “An answer to Dr. Hare's Letter on certain Theoretical opinions”, Am. J. Sci., 39: 108-20.
HARE, Robert (1840): “A letter to Prof. Faraday, on certain Theoretical Opinions”, Am. J. Sci., 38: 1-11.
HARE, Robert (1841): “Second Letter to Prof. Faraday”, Am. J. Sci., 41: 1-14.
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