Hans Christian Oersted to Faraday   5 September 1843

Copenhagen the 5 Septemb. 1843

My dear Sir,

Your kind letter of the 14 August¹ has made me a true pleasure, and this of more than one reason; for I was not only glad to heare of your news after so long time, but your frien[d]ly wishes, always dear to me, happen to have the date of my Birthday (the 66th year of my life), and so I take them as a welcome congratulation.

I have from time to time received with much gratitude a great deal of your papers upon electricity, but I want some of them. I have got series 1-1O, 14-17² with the index of the first 14; but I want 11, 12, 13³, and I have got no later number than 17. Thought [sic] I have all these papers in the Phil. Trans. I should be glad to have them collected in separate volumes, which should be one of the ornaments of my library. If I dead not fear that you have spend all your copies of these wanting numbers and that those send to me were lost on the way, I would beg you give me them.

Permit me, my dear Sir, to recommand you the bearer of this Mr. Weiss, a disciple of the Danish Polytechnical School. Thought [sic] he is far from being ingnorant of natural philosophy, it is not particularly upon this head that I recommend him, but I would beg you to favour his technological intentions, to study the mills and the paper-making by your good advice and some further recommandations to such men, as could be him useful in this way.

I shall be glad to hear of your news at the return of Mr Weiss.

I am | My dear friend | most faithfully Yours | H.C. Oersted

To | Dr. Faraday

In writing down my letter I had nearly forgotten what I had particularly in mind, to return all your friendly wishes, and that of my full heart[.] May you long live to your own happiness and the advancement of science[.]

Address: To | Doctor Michael Faraday | Royal Institution | London