Faraday to Robert Hunt   28 May 1846

R Institution | 28 May 1846

My dear Hunt

I have read your paper¹ with care & as I would read one of my own i.e to criticise its condition[.] I think it contains most important matter & my impression is that the chief fact is that of the suppression of chemical force by magnetic forces as described at the end of the paper[.] The other effects seem to me to be derived from this - but there are many of your forms of expression which I do not clearly comprehend or which else are I think contradictory to each other. I have made pencil marks in every page but could only discuss the points with you by word of mouth. When are we to meet for that purpose & when do you come back? Your note seems to wish me to present the paper at once. De la Beches note seems to wish me to give you my view of it. The matter of the paper I think well worthy of the RS². i.e you bury some of your facts but the arrangement & form of it is not such as I would adopt if the paper were mine. I think I should make the end the beginning - but of this I can say nothing certain without some clear talk with you as to the meaning of many points & as to the conclusion or conclusions at which you considered you have arrived.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

R. Hunt Esq | &c &c &c