Faraday to Julius Plücker   23 November 1850

Royal Institution | 23 Novr. 1850

My dear friend

I feel as if I ought to have written to you before but I have been so engaged in researches about Terrestrial Magnetism that I have lost my remembrances of other things & am only slowly coming back to them. I had your kind letter¹ by Dr. Brandis² but saw very little of him far less than I desired and I hope you will say so to him. I believe I was in the country the chief part of his time in London but my chief difficulty in the way of intercourse with foreigners & even with society in general is my failing memory. I often intend to do things & then entirely forget their performance until too late.

You still work as I know & cannot work without making discoveries. One of my sorrows is that they are to me concealed as it were in the German language[.] Still by degrees I get hold of the matter. I hope one day to return to the subject of magnetic & diamagnetic bodies and their inchangeability or their convertibility. I cannot conceive the latter in my mind & think that if it be so there must be some far higher point of philosophy hanging thereby[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Yours Very faithfully | M. Faraday

Dr. Plucker | &c &c &c

Address: Professor Plücker | &c &c &c | University | Bonn