Faraday to Edward William Brayley   13 December 1848¹

R Institution | or rather Brighton | 13 Decr. 1848

My dear Sir

I am sorry I cannot supply Mr Hadgetts² with a ticket for my lectures³ but you know they are not mine in property and the privilege of admission which I possess is of necessity & properly limited[.] Last year at the Easter [lectures,] I think to give him admission to two or three lectures I had to deny my own relative to whom I must now turn. When it is for yourself I will strain every point but you must not ask me for others[.]

The remark you refer to is not in my written paper⁴ but if it were I should not have to revise it: for it was Barlow⁵ & not Wollaston⁶ who shewed mathematically that a tangential action having a certain law would satisfy every condition of the facts of Electro magnetic rotations⁷. Wollaston spoke of circumferential power⁸ deducing it from Oersteds results and though he expected rotation could not by his views at that time make it out[.] Barlows was much later & was what I referred to: it illustrated my point Wollastons did not[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. Brayley Esq | &c &c &c