Faraday to Edward Sabine   13 November 1852

R Institution | 13 Novr. 1852

My dear Sabine

You say there is not so much interest felt here as there ought to be in the probable joint magnetic relations of the Sun & the Earth¹. I think that ought not to be so and you know how much I have striven & Barlow also to make our Friday Evenings useful in that respect as concerns a highly intelligent & somewhat influential audience. The subject is a fit one for such an audience if treated in the manner which would make the ideas comprehensible to those who being intelligent still are hearing for the first time. What do you say? Would you like them i.e. the ideas put forth here on such an occasion & will you give us an account of them some Friday Evening?²

Or if you would rather not give an evening & still would like them noticed it seems to me that I shall be giving an evening on some points relating to the magnetic force as the amount of action at different distances and it is very probable I could devote a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes to your subject and should wish to do so if you wished it and would undertake to instruct me a little in the general vein of the matter³.

However I speak very much at random until I know your inclinations. The thing I should like most would be to hear you here[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday