Faraday to Richard Griffin   11 May 18601

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 11 May 1860

Dear Sir

I am much obliged to you for the copies of the Christmas lectures2. I am obliged to you also for the favourable opinion of them which is expressed in the Preface3 - and above all for the clear & plain manner in which it is shown that the act of publishing is not mine and so my relation to the volume made manifest to all into whose hands it may come4.

Ever my dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

R. Griffin Esq.

1
Scottish publishers founded by Richard Griffin (d.1832, age 43, B1 under Charles Griffin).
2
Faraday (1860b) which he delivered during the 1859-1860 season and was published by Richard Griffin and Company.
3
The preface (pp.iii-vi) was written by the Glasgow based industrial chemist Charles Hanson Greville Williams (1829-1910, ODNB). See Crookes to Williams, 1 February 1861, in James (1981), letter 1.
4
Faraday (1860b), v-vi.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1860b): A course of six lectures on the various forces of Matter, and their relations to each other, London

JAMES, Frank A.J.L. (1981): “The Letters of William Crookes to Charles Hanson Greville Williams 1861-2: The Detection and Isolation of Thallium”, Ambix, 28: 131-57.

Please cite as “Faraday3777,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3777