Jane Marcet to Faraday   24 November 1845

Danesbury | Nov 24

Dear Mr Faraday

I have this morning read in the Athenaeum1 some account of a discovery you announce to the public respecting the identity of the imponderable agents heat light & electricity; & as I am at this moment correcting the sheets of my Conversations on Chemistry for a new edition, might I take the liberty of begging you would inform me where I could obtain a correct account of this discovery. It is I fear of too abstruse a nature to be adapted to my young pupils; yet I cannot make up my mind to publish a new edition without making mention of it; I have therefore kept back the proof sheets of the conversation on electricity, which I was this morning revising, until I receive your answer, in hopes of being able to introduce it in that sheet2.

Believe me dear Mr Faraday | Very truly yours | Jane Marcet

I shall be at Mr. Blake's3 Danesbury, Welwyn, Herts till next Saturday4 when I shall return to Stratton Street.

1
Athenaeum, 8 November 1845, p.1080.
2
Marcet (1846). I was not able to obtain a copy of this edition, but the following edition, Marcet (1853), 1: 188-9 does refer to Faraday's discovery.
3
William Blake (d.1852, age 78, B1). Sheriff of Hertfordshire and water colour collector.
4
That is 29 November 1845.

Bibliography

MARCET, Jane (1846): Conversations on Chemistry, 15th edition, 2 volumes, London.

MARCET, Jane (1853): Conversations on Chemistry, 16th edition, 2 volumes, London.

Please cite as “Faraday1791,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1791