Edward T.U. Hill to Faraday   20 June 1845¹

8 Little Moorfields, Finsbury P. | June 20, 1845.

Sir,

You may be able to recall to your recollection having been written by me from Ireland, and, afterwards, from my lodgings in town, respecting an extraordinary case of the communication from a distance of galvanic shocks through the medium of somnambules or magnetized subjects put "en rapport" with the person operated on. In my letters I did not enter into such an explanation of the case as I should have wished. I had been before, and have been since, writing you, using every means in my power to bring the fact before persons competent to decide on it in such form as should convince them of it. The result of my labors will be best ascertained by reading my journal which I have placed in the hands of the Actuary² of the Medical and Invalid Life Assurance Society, 35 [sic]³ Pall Mall, with directions to lend it to you and some others conversant on the subject. It is only necessary now to inform you that I have been the person operated on under most extraordinary circumstances. My only request is that you will give my journal a patient perusal, and draw your own conclusion. When making this I affirm most solemnly that there is nothing in it overcharged. Whatever may be your opinion, I think that the time thus spent will not be regretted by you. No one is more fully aware than I am of the annoyances in the form of applications to which a position such as yours exposes the occupier. I am in hopes, however that the importance of the affair, in which mine has originated, to the public at large, will plead in excuse for my adding to the number. It is in fact a case demanding a man of your talent and research to decide on it. I have the honor to be,

Sir, | Your most obedient servant | Edwd. T.U. Hill

To | Professor Faraday