Christian Friedrich Schoenbein to Faraday   27 March 1850

My dear Faraday

Our Chief Magistrate Burgomaster Sarasin¹ friend to your friend and a liberal patron to science taking a trip to England will be kind enough to deliver these lines and the papers laid by into your hands and I am sure you will be glad to make the acquaintance of the highly worthy gentleman.

The paper in octavo deals with the voltaic pile² and that in quarto contains an account of my recent researches on ozône³ of which I talked in my last letter to you⁴. To give you a substantial proof of the correctness of my statements I send you a little bit of peroxide of silver and nitrate of potash both the substances having been prepared by the means of ozône.

Little being known of ozône in England don’t you think the subject fit for being once treated before one of the Friday meetings of the Royal Institution⁵[.] It allows of a great number of striking experiments to be made. Should you like the Idea I would give you a list of those I think to be the most interesting and instructive ones.

As you know no doubt Mr. Henry⁶, the Chymist who is Headbrewer in some great brewery of the City, pray let him have the enclosed.

My best compliments to Mrs. Faraday and my kindest regards to yourself

Your’s | most truly | C.F. Schoenbein

Bâle March 27, 1850.