Faraday to Franklin Coxworthy   24 December 1846

Royal Institution, | 24th December, 1846.

Sir – I am obliged to you for the copy of the papers¹, and have looked them hastily through. I cannot undertake to do more, for I can hardly find time and strength to pursue my own views.* You must be content to do as other philosophers do; form your own judgment, give it to the world, and then leave others to adopt it or not, according to their opinion of its value, or their ability to understand it. It often happens to me to be, as I think, misunderstood on very important points; but having put them on record, I do not think that I have any right to press them, because, after all, I may be wrong. What I practice myself is, of course, that which I should recommend to you. I return the MS. Because as there is a good deal of it, it may save you some trouble.

I am, &c., | M. Faraday

F. Coxworthy, Esq.

*See my [Coxworthy’s] Pamphlet of 1847.