Thomas Andrews to Faraday   28 October 1843

Belfast 28th Octr. / 43.

My dear Sir,

I am greatly obliged by your kind compliance¹ with my request, and I hope to be able to forward my papers to you in the course of a fortnight.

On reading your remark as to the paper² being original, it occurred to me that I had sent a short notice of some of my results to the last meeting of the British Association³, which was read to the Chemical section by Dr. Apjohn⁴. That notice was printed at full length in the Athenaeum⁵, you will find it in the accompanying slip and can judge whether such an announcement would disqualify my paper for the Royal Society. The experiments in question have occupied me during the last five months. The first statement in the notice that the general principle therein announced is a mere consequence of my previous researches is not strictly correct, or I should not have thought of presenting my results to the Royal Society. On the contrary that principle embraces every experiment which I have yet made in this inquiry. To prevent mistake, I may repeat that the printed notice contains the entire communication sent by me to the Association. If this notice does not appear to you to be material, do not give yourself the trouble of replying to this note, as I will conclude from your silence that I may send you the paper when ready.

I am glad you did not give yourself the trouble of sending me a copy of your last valuable paper⁶, as I have ready access to the Phil. Transactions. Most sincerely am I rejoiced to hear that your health is restored, and hoping it may long continue so

I remain My dear Sir | Yours very sincerely & obliged | (signed) Thomas Andrews

To | M. Faraday Esq | &c &c