Faraday to Charles Wheatstone   27 November 1843

Royal Institution, 27th November, 1843.

Thanks, my dear Wheatstone, for your most valuable paper¹ ; it is a great pity that it did not appear in the Phil. Trans. long ago. The only alloy to my pleasure in the reading of it was the continual bulkling by the errors of reference made, I suppose, either by the engraver or printer. Thus, at p.323, the references to fig. 5, I cannot follow throughout on the plate. At. p.326, fig. 9 means, I conclude, fig. 8 of plate², but if so, then the letter E is wrong in one or the other. If these are not mistakes of mine only, then it would be well if they could be corrected in the plates before the transactions are sent out, supposing that possible.

Let me hope you will carry out your paragraph 8 with respect to all bodies; it identifies itself with my paragraph, 1871, etc³. Then, where is excitement by contact?

Ever truly yours, | (Signed) M. Faraday.

C. Wheatstone, Esq.