Faraday to William Robert Grove   1 September 1846

Tunbridge Wells | 1 Septr. 1846

My dear Grove

First let me thank you for your kind note and next do me the favour to give my most sincere acknowledgements to your friend Captn. Bold1 for his offered & great kindness. I shall not be able to accept it for if at Southampton2 at all it will only be for a day or two & that is doubtful so I shall just act as it may turn up. Indeed Mr. & Mrs. Barlow were claiming companionship with me if I were likely to be there. I think your plan very good for to wait altogether for the RS. just now would be to leave any point you have to leak out by accident & imperfectly & thus when your paper appeared people would think it old3.

I have had no notice from Hunt yet to see his precise & distinct experiments & do not know in what state his communication is4[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

W.R. Grove Esq | &c &c &c

1
Edward Bold. An officer in the Royal and Portuguese Navies. O'Bryne (1849), 95. His name disappears from the Navy List in 1870.
2
For the British Association.
3
This appears to be Faraday's approval for Grove to give a paper on the contents of Grove (1847) to the British Association, which he did. See Grove (1846).
4
Hunt (1846). See note 2, letter 1882.

Bibliography

GROVE, William Robert (1846): “On the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat”, Rep. Brit. Ass., 48-9.

GROVE, William Robert (1847): “On certain Phenomena of Voltaic Ignition, and the Decomposition of Water into its constituent Gases by Heat, Phil. Trans., 137: 1-21.

HUNT, Robert (1846): “Researches on the Influence of Magnetism and Voltaic Electricity, on Crystallization, and other Conditions of Matter”, Mem. Geol. Survey, 1: 433-59.

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