Faraday to Edwin Sidney   11 April 18561

Royal Institution | 11 April 1856

My dear Sidney,

I have just received your letter & also your lecture2 & have read both & though as you know it is not my place to talk much of sacred matters I think of them & thank you for the lecture. It would indeed well bear expanding into a book3[.]

I am glad you like Schoenbein’s letter4[.]

And I am glad to hear of your continued exertions for the Idiot Asylum5[.] I found that Dr. Guggenbuhl6 is in town & has left me a couple of pamphlets7 but I have not yet seen him[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Revd. E. Sidney | &c &c &c

1
Edwin Sidney (d.1872, age 74, B6). Rector of Little Cornard, 1847-1872, and lecturer at the Royal Institution and elsewhere. See also Fyfe (2004), 224-8.
2
Sidney (1856).
3
See Sidney [1867].
4
Letter 3054 part of which was published as Schoenbein (1856b).
5
That is Essex Hall, Colchester.
6
Johann Jakob Guggenbühl (1816-1863, DHBS). Swiss physician.
7
Probably including Guggenbühl (1853).

Bibliography

FYFE, Aileen (2004): Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain, Chicago.

SCHOENBEIN, Christian Friedrich (1856b): “On Ozone and Ozonic Actions in Mushrooms”, Phil. Mag., 11: 137-41.

SIDNEY, Edwin (1856): Testimony to Scripture by Modern Science and Discovery, [London].

SIDNEY, Edwin [1867]: Conversations on the Bible & Science, London.

Please cite as “Faraday3119,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3119