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Faraday to William Robert Grove   31 October 1844

R Institution | 31 Octr 1844

Dear Grove

I cannot by any possibility leave here tomorrow after 2 oclk & am very sorry for it. But you will shew me the experiment afterwards[.] I have heard of it imperfectly from Manchester1 but as I heard of it suspect it is merely some conduction of the sound of the snap at the place of making or breaking contact &c &c2.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Until after Monday 3 I am close shut up in my own experiments4.

1
This would appear to be a reference to letter 1629 written from Birmingham. Faraday seems to have had difficulty distinguishing between Manchester and Birmingham. See letter 1606.
2
See Marrian (1844).
3
That is 4 November 1844.
4
See Faraday, Diary, 4 November 1844, 4: 7186-7221.

Bibliography

MARRIAN, J.P. (1844): “On Sonorous Phaenomena in Electro-Magnets”, Phil. Mag., 25: 382-4.

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