Faraday to T.E. Venables   4 August 1849¹

Glasgow | 4 August 1849

Sir

Want of health has obliged me for a long time to lay bye all practical chemistry & I could now say very little to you about the bleaching question that could be of use[.] I suppose the bagging you complain of is of fibre that has undergone little or no preparatory process but in that respect is as nearly raw as may be & may require the alternate action of lye & chlorine to bleach it which is practised (or was a few years ago [)] by the linen weavers. But I really know nothing of the present state of the practical working of the subject, & I am sorry for it[.]

I am Sir | Your Very Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

T.E. Venables Esq | &c &c &c