Faraday to John Phillips1   23 September 18582

Kirkstall Grange | Leeds3

My dear Phillips

My head is too full of aches & my memory too false for me to endeavour to hold & compare all the relations of Mr. Mercers4 paper5. You must give it to some other of the formalists.

I am afraid I shall not see you[.] I sought all to day for you in vain & I must return on Saturday morng6. Kindest remembrance to Miss Phillips7[.]

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

Thursday

1
John Phillips (1800-1874, ODNB). One of the founders of the British Association and its Assistant General Secretary until 1859.
2
Dated on the basis of Faraday’s attendance at the Annual Meeting of the British Association in Leeds.
3
The residence of William Beckett with whom Faraday stayed during the meeting. See letters 3482 and 3496.
4
John Mercer (1791-1866, ODNB). Chemist.
5
Mercer (1858).
6
That is 25 September 1858.
7
Anne Phillips (1803-1862, see ODNB under J. Phillips). Sister of John Phillips for whom she kept house from 1829.

Bibliography

MERCER, John (1858): “On the Relation of the Atomic Weights of the Families of the Elements”, Rep. Brit. Ass, 57-63.

Please cite as “Faraday3517,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3517