Faraday to John Tyndall   9 December 1857

Brighton, | 9 Dec. 1857.

My dear Tyndall,

I cannot resist the pleasure of saying I have very much enjoyed your paper¹. Every part has given me delight. It goes on from point to point beautifully. You will find many pencil marks, for I made them as I read. I let them stand, for though many of them receive their answer as the story proceeds, yet they shew how the wording impresses a mind fresh to the subject, and perhaps here and there you may like to alter it slightly, if you wish the full idea, i.e. not an inaccurate one, to be suggested at first; and yet after all I believe it is not your phrase, but the natural jumping to a conclusion, that affects, or has affected, my pencil.

We return on Friday², when I will return you the paper.

Ever truly yours, | M. Faraday