Faraday to William De La Rive   24 January 1853

Royal Institution | 24 Jany 1853

My dear Sir

I have received from Longman’s1 the copy of the First Vol of the Work2 of my friend your father of which you spoke to me. I thank you first for it as it comes through your intervention and I shall ever value it highly first & foremost as an association with & remembrance from him whom I esteem so highly and next as a great contribution to science[.] Though I have only looked into it as yet, I am able to see it has a claim to such character. When I have had time to read it I shall then write to your father himself and acknowledge both the book & his last kind letter3[.]

Ever Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

M. de la Rive Esq | &c &c &c

1
That is Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, publishers in Paternoster Row. Wallis (1974), 40.
2
De La Rive (1853-8), 1.

Bibliography

DE LA RIVE, Arthur-August (1853-8): A Treatise on Electricity, in Theory and Practice, 3 volumes, London.

WALLIS, Philip (1974): At the Sign of the Ship: Notes on the House of Longman, 1724-1974, Harlow.

Please cite as “Faraday2627,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday2627