George Whitehead Hearn to Faraday   8 November 18451

R.M. Coll | Sandhurst | Berks. | 8 Novr 1845

Sir

You will much oblige me by giving a little attention to this2. Should it be the means of obtaining me even only an interview with one whom as a successful prosecutor of science I so highly esteem, I will consider myself amply repaid for the mental application necessary in writing it. It is but an abstract of a paper written by me long ago & having seen an account in the Times3 (a letter from Sir J South) of your recent extraordinary discoveries I determined to send you the abstract[.]

Hoping to give no offence by this freedom[.]

I am Sir | Your most | Obedient | humble servant | Geo W. Hearn

Professor Faraday | &c &c &c

1
George Whitehead Hearn (1812-1851, B5). Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
2
Enclosed with this letter is a manuscript copy of a paper which Hearn later published as Hearn (1846).
3
Times, 5 November 1845, p.4, col. a.

Bibliography

HEARN, George Whitehead (1846): “Required the mutual action of two indefinitely small plane closed voltaic currents”, Mathematician, 2: 160-2.

Please cite as “Faraday1782,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1782