Joseph Henry to Faraday   22 April 1845

Princeton College of New | Jersey April 22nd 1845

My dear Sir

Permit me to introduce to your acquaintance my friend Professor Cresson¹ of Phild. He leaves his family tomorrow for a few months to make a short tour in Europe and with no one abroad is he more anxious to form an acquaintance than with yourself. Permit me to recommend him to your attention as a most worthy and intelligent gentleman who is highly esteemed in this country and with whose acquaintance I am sure you will be well pleased.

I have heard that you have had some thoughts of making a visit to this country, to give a course of lectures at the Lowell Institute in Boston²[.] I hope you will conclude to come[.] You will not find a voyage across the Atlantic an affair of much moment particularly if your wife accompanies you and the permanent improvement in your health on account of the journey will more than compensate for the temporary interruption of your pursuits. When you come we shall expect a visit from you at Princeton which is midway between New York and Phild - about 45 miles from each city on the route of the Railway[.]

I am rejoiced to learn that you have recovered your health and that you are again engaged in a series of most interesting experiments on the condensation of the gases. Permit me to hope that you will remember me in the distribution of the extra nos of your paper³.

I have not published any thing of any importance for some time although I have on hand a large collection of facts relative to the dynamic induction of ordinary electricity which I have kept back with the hope of finding time to render more complete⁴. The result however has been that I have been anticipated in some of my discoveries[.] I am however not very anxious about scientific reputation and I can truly say that I have received much more pleasure from my investigations than from any credit I may have received on account of my labours.

With much respect I remain | most sincerely yours &c | Joseph Henry

Dr Faraday