Faraday to John Dix   18 November 18451

Brighton | 18 Novr. 1845

Sir

I beg to thank you for your kindness in taking charge of the books2 for me and hope if you have occasion you will make my best acknowledgements to the Publishers to whom I am greatly obliged. I am very glad to hear of my friend Henry from whom I rarely hear any thing directly[.]

At present I am both working & resting at once having matters before me that no consideration can remove me from[.] In a few weeks or so I hope to be a little clearer but do not in my present course of experiment know what may spring up. But though I cannot attend to you myself if you call at the Institution any day except tomorrow and Saturday 3 Mr Anderson the chemical assistant will shew you about the house - and also tell you about the Lectures. I shall be lecturing in Christmas time4 & to my own lectures can easily help you i.e. if you will remind me as the time draws nigh for my memory has become so treacherous that I can let nothing safely rest upon it[.]

I am Sir | Your Very Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

John Dix Esq | &c &c &c

1
John Dix (c1800-1865, DNB). Writer who emigrated to America.
2
Dix had brought some books from America for Faraday. For Dix's account of his meeting with Faraday when he handed them over see [Dix] (1852), 89-94.
3
That is 22 November 1845.
4
That is his Christmas lectures, "A Course of Six Lectures on the Rudiments of Chemistry". For his notes see RI MS F4 I8.

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