Faraday to Theobald Schideck   8 October 18571

Royal Institution | London | 8 October 1857

Sir

I have received a letter I believe from your department2. I am unable to read German but a friend has told me its purport and it is such as to require my very sincere & humble thanks. To give you an account of my engagements and honors would be really out of my power[.] I therefore take the liberty of enclosing such mention of them as is placed upon the list of the Fellows of the Royal Society of London3 and think that will be abundantly sufficient to meet your wishes[.]

I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Obedient humble Servant | M. Faraday

The honourable | The Secretary of the | Academy of Breslau | &c &c &c


Address: The honourable | The Secretary of the | Academia C.L.C. | Naturae Cu | &c &c &c | Breslau | Prussia.

1
Theobald Schideck (d.1878, Bohley (2003), 413). Secretary of the Academia Caesarea Leopoldina-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum.
3
See p.12 of Royal Society list of Fellows for 1857.

Bibliography

BOHLEY, Johanna (2003): Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck: Ausgewählter Briefwechsel mit Schriftstellern und Verlegern (Johann Friedrich von Cotta, Johann Georg von Cotta, Therese Huber, Ernst Otto Lindner, Friederike Kempner), Halle.

Please cite as “Faraday3341,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3341