Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein   13 November 1845

Brighton | 13 Novr. 1845

My dear Schoenbein

I received yours of the 20th Ultimo¹ and have sent off the paper² to the Royal Society with my humble opinion that it is good. You know I am not (& have no time to be) in the Councils. Your bleaching is very remarkable & good.

At present I have scarcely a moment to spare for any thing but work[.] I happen to have discovered a direct relation between magnetism & light also Electricity & light - and the field it opens is so large & I think rich that I naturally wish to look at it first. I have sent one paper to the Royal³ & am about another⁴. I actually have not time to tell you what the thing is - for I now see no one & do no thing but just work[.]

My head became giddy & I have therefore come to this place but still I bring my work with me. When I can catch time I will tell you more[.] But in the midst of all the philosophy do not forget to remember both my wife & myself to Mrs Schoenbein. The thought of being quietly with you in the mountains or on the river forms a strange contrast with my present most active state[.]

Ever Dear Schoenbein | Your Grateful friend | M. Faraday

You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies - & remote figures respecting the earth Sun & all sorts of things⁵ - for I think that is the true way (corrected by judgment) to work out a discovery | MF

Address: Dr. Schoenbein | &c &c &c | Basle | on the Rhine