Faraday to William Whewell   17 November 18481

R Institution | 17 Novr. 1848

My dear Sir

Mr Barlow rejoices with me in the thought of your discourse2 and fearing to trouble you too much asks me to ask you what date you will choose[.] We commence on the 19th of January and go on weekly. Will you take the first? or second or third, after that Mr. Brande3 & I shall arrange our evenings. I should like to hear your thoughts before my evening4 that I may profit: but all is subject to your convenience & pleasure. "The idea of polarity" is to my mind perfect as a title[.]

Ever Yours Most Truly | M. Faraday

Revd. Dr. Whewell | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged. See note 1, letter 2118.
2
See Athenaeum, 3 February 1849, pp.119-20 for an account of Whewell's Friday Evening Discourse of 19 January 1849 "On the Idea of Polarity". For a discussion of this lecture see Schaffer (1991), 229-30.
3
See Athenaeum, 17 February 1849, pp.171-2 for an account of Brande's Friday Evening Discourse of 2 February 1849 "On the Theory and Practice of the Production of Light".
4
See Lit.Gaz., 10 February 1849, pp.96-7 for an account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 26 January 1849 "On the Crystalline Polarity of Bismuth and other bodies and its relation to the magnetic force".

Bibliography

SCHAFFER, Simon (1991): “The History and Geography of the Intellectual World: Whewell's Politics of Language” in Fisch and Schaffer (1991), 201-31.

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