Faraday to John Joseph Griffin1   4 January 18592

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 4 January 1858 [sic]

My dear Sir

Accept my sincere thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of Your Radical Theory3. Chemistry has become such a comprehensive & extensive pursuit & my memory has become so imperfect in its action that I dare not profess to retain in mind the data necessary for the decision of the great historical question contained in your work4 but I trust that the progress of time & connection will soon remove that which is doubtful & set forth in just prominence the right claimants for disputed honors[.]

I am | Your Very faithful Servant | M. Faraday

J.J. Griffin Esqr | &c &c &c

1
John Joseph Griffin (1802-1877, ODNB). Chemical writer and supplier of apparatus.
2
Dated on the basis that Griffin (1858) was published at the end of 1858. See the review in Athenaeum, 25 December 1858, p.839.
3
Griffin (1858).
4
This question was who had developed the radical theory of chemistry.

Bibliography

GRIFFIN, John Joseph (1858): The Radical Theory in Chemistry, London.

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