Julius Plücker to Faraday   17 August 1857

Dear Sir!

During your glorious career of scientific researches it certainly may often happened, that you entered a question having very little hope to get a satisfactory result. Such is my case on the present occasion. There is held at Bonn from 18th to the 24th of September the 33th meeting of the Germain Association¹. All is done to render it a splendid one, a great number of eminent men from all countries are expected. Every body would regard your presence as a most precious one. You dont like festivals, I know,- but you may move here quite free. You dont like traveling abroad, but changing the air of London and its environs with the air of the Rhine, will certainly do good to your health - when my own head is tired, I run away in any direction, and, when returned, I feel myself restored. Let me be the advocate of our Association, if I should succeed - a case more whished for by myself then expected - I shall be happy to take care of all regarding your stay here at Bonn. Having no office on this occasion you may fully dispose on me.- I dont expect any answer but in the extraordinary case of a favourable decision.

I thank you for your last kind letter², which announces me that the presented paper (addressed to the foreign Secretary³) is not lost⁴. With patience I’ll expect its future destiny.

From all my heart | Yours | Plücker

Bonn 17th Aug. 1857.