William Crookes to Faraday   15 November 18601

Dear Sir,

Last Christmas I was kindly allowed the privilege of attending and reporting your course of Lectures in the Chemical News 2. I venture to hope that the manner in which I then acquitted myself of the responsibility of transferring your language to print will not cause you to withhold a similar permission on the occasion of your forthcoming course “On the Chemical History of a Candle.”3

I remain, Sir, | Truly yours, | William Crookes

1
Date as given in D’Albe (1923), 53.
2
Faraday (1860) was first published in Chem.News, 7, 14, 21, 28 January, 4, 18 February 1860, 1:52-5, 65-8, 77-80, 88-91, 100-103, 126-9.
3
Faraday’s lectures delivered after Christmas 1860 were published in Chem.News, 5, 12, 19, 26 January, 2, 9 February 1861, 3: 6-10, 24-7, 42-6, 57-60, 72-6, 84-8. These were then published as Faraday (1861c).

Bibliography

D’ALBE E.E. Fournier (1923): The Life of Sir William Crookes, London.

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

FARADAY, Michael (1861c): A Course of Six Lectures on the Chemical History of a Candle; to which is added a Lecture on Platinum, London.

Please cite as “Faraday3892,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3892