Faraday to Paolo Volpicelli   6 December 18561

Royal Institution | London | 6 Decr. 1856

My dear Sigr. Volpicelli

I take the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance a friend of mine Dr. Henry2 who will shortly be in Rome[.] I am quite sure you will be pleased to make his acquaintance[.] Such papers as I have had for you I have sent before time by the Royal Society but I hope in the course of a few months to give you proof that I am alive if not by a good paper at the Royal Society at least by a long one3. My kindest respects to Sig Palagi & others of my friends at Rome - I wish I could see you all there & pay my obedience to the Society4[.]

I am | My dear Sir | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

1
Paolo Volpicelli (1804-1879, P3). Secretary of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 1847-1877.
2
William Charles Henry (1804-1892, ODNB). Physician and chemist.
3
Faraday (1857c).
4
Presumably the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to which he had been elected in 1850. Odescalchi and Volpicelli to Faraday, 20 November 1850, letter 2345, volume 4.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1857c): “Experimental Relations of Gold (and other Metals) to light”, Phil. Trans., 147: 145-81.

Please cite as “Faraday3210,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3210