Faraday to John Scoffern   22 September 18521

Royal Institution | 22 Septr 1852

My dear Sir

I beg to thank you most sincerely for the copy of your work on Gold2 and for the kind feeling which has prompted you to put my name in it.

I am Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Dr Scoffern

Let me have my lecture notes as soon as you have done with them3 | MF

1
John Scoffern (1814-1882, B3). Physician, chemist and scientific writer.
2
Presumably a reference to an autograph dedication in an advance copy of Scoffern and Higgins (1853) which does not mention Faraday by name in the text. However, the calculations of the amount of oxygen in the world on p.82 are taken directly, and without explicit acknowledgement, from Faraday (1853b), 113-4.
3
That is Faraday’s notes (RI MS F4 J13) of his lectures on the non-metallic elements which he had delivered after Easter and from which Scoffern edited Faraday (1853b).

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1853b): The Subject Matter of a Course of Six Lectures on the Non-Metallic Elements, London.

Please cite as “Faraday2573,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2573