Christian Friedrich Schoenbein to Faraday   29 August 1852

My dear Faraday!

To give you a sign of life I write these lines quite in a hurry. They will be delivered to you by the kindness of our mutual friend Dr. Whewell. Your last letter1 shall be answered at a more convenient time and so as it merits, for your friend is in this present moment not in his writing-mood. He has continued to ride his hobby-horse and found out different little things. If you have got a friend knowing german, he will perhaps give you the substance of the papers, I have published in Erdmann’s2 Journal for practical Chemistry3.

Tuas literas expectabo, quum ut, quid agas, tum, ubi sis sciam, et cura, ut omnia sciam, sed maxime ut valeas. Tuae uxori carissimae salutem4

C.F.S.

Bâle Aug. 29, 1852.


Address: Doctor M. Faraday | &c &c &c | Royal Institution | Albemarle street | London

2
Otto Linné Erdmann (1804-1869, DSB). Professor of Chemistry at Leipzig and editor of J.Prak.Chem.
3
Schoenbein (1852b, c, d, e, f, g, h).
4
“I shall await your letter, in order that I may know what you are doing and where you are, take care that I know everything, but most of all that you are well. I hope your wife is well”.

Please cite as “Faraday2562,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2562