Faraday to Christian Friedrich Schoenbein   19 April 1861

19 April 1861

My dear Schoenbein

I had a note from Dr. Shuttleworth and in due time called on him and received your very precious packet & letter¹ very safe. I write solely to thank you for it. At the same time I may say that I have verified your results having repeated the experiments you described in the first part of your letter. I used as little as possible of the fluor spar but I hope more will be found - or that you will discover how to prepare such a combination - for I am sure that having proceeded so far & obtained Antozone in the free state with that concentration which it must have as it leaves the bruised spar you cannot stop until you obtain it in the concentrate & separate state. But take care you do not poison yourself.

Your nitrification results are most interesting & important & I trust that you will lead them on to a full development & application. You deserve some reward for your labour - and though you have that which consists in the respect praise & honour which philosophers award to you yet there would be no objection to some of the money power which ordinary men value and which is so often obtained by them in applying the thoughts of the thinkers.

I am still dull stupid & forgetful[.] I wish a discovery would turn up with me that I might answer you in a decent respectable way. But it will not.

Ever My dear Schoenbein | Yours | M. Faraday