Faraday to John Frederick William Herschel   12 November 18521

Royal Institution | 12 Mar. [sic] 1852

My dear Herschel

I have not read up the different elementary Treatises on Chemistry and should rather ask advice than give it but I will mention three, Fowne[s]’s2, Graham’s3, and Brande’s4. The first is the smallest but excellent. The third is the largest.

Ever truly yours | M. Faraday

I have sent Wolf’s letter5 to Sabine for I thought he was far the best judge as to fitness6. | MF


Endorsement in Herschel’s hand: The original given by J.F.W.H. to Is. H7.

1
Dated on the basis that this is the reply to letter 2591.
2
George Fownes (1815-1849, DSB). Professor of Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society, 1842-1846. The text was Fownes (1850).
3
Graham (1842).
4
Brande (1848).
7
Isabella Herschel (1831-1893, Buttmann (1970), 72, Evans et al. (1969), 6). Second daughter of John Herschel.

Bibliography

BRANDE, William Thomas (1848): A Manual of Chemistry, 6th edition, 2 volumes, London.

BUTTMANN, Günther (1970): The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel, New York.

FOWNES, George (1850): A Manual of Elementary Chemistry, Theoretical and Practical, 3rd edition, London.

Please cite as “Faraday2595,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2595