Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein   23 January 1857

Royal Institution | 23 January 1857

My dear Schoenbein

I wished to write to you and therefore wrote to my friend Miss Hornblower whose former letter you have¹ - After a few days she wrote me enclosing a letter to Miss Schoenbein which I now send - it will explain itself & say more than I can. Your last but one letter² I also laid before Mrs. Grove³ & some others but nothing has come of it so far. Mrs. Grove was anxious to aid the cause but could find no opportunity. You will see that the philosophic part of your last has appeared in the Phil. Mag.⁴ & I trust will aid by degrees in doing the work of science: but the work is slow - Look at Ozone how beautiful it is & yet how its progress has been resisted & how little it was thought of at first - I do not know that I am doing any thing. I forget - I have been subduing gold & other metals but probably told you about that - I cannot say⁵ & I must not say more just now than to wish all happiness to Miss Schoenbein & the rest with you & the kindest thoughts to yourself from

Your friend | M. Faraday

Address: Dr Schoenbein | &c &c &c | University | Basle | on the Rhine | Switzerland