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Christian Friedrich Schoenbein to Faraday   18 July 1862

My dear Faraday

Professor Eisenlohr1 of Carlsruhe a most intimate friend of mine is going to London and wishing to get introduced to you, I write these few lines to recommend him to your kindness. You will, I am quite sure, be highly pleased with the personal acquaintance of that most excellent and amiable man, who, by the bye, is a great admirer of you. Within a few days I shall leave Bâle for Goettingen, where I intend to spend part of our Midsummer holidays with my friends there: Woehler, Weber2, Wagner3 &c. Having worked rather hard these last eight or ten months, I feel myself a little tired and my mind now wants some rest and relaxation. I trust, you have put yourself out of the way during the monster exhibition4, not to be trodden down by the crowds of the foreign visitors invading the Royal Institution.

Before long you shall have another letter from me telling you something about my late scientific doings, which will perhaps be interesting to you.

In begging you to give my kindest regards to Mrs. Faraday, I am my dear friend

Your’s | most faithfully | C.F. Schoenbein

Bâle July 18th | 1862

Doctor Faraday | &c &c &c

1
Wilhelm Eisenlohr (1799–1872, NDB). Professor of Physics at the Polytechnic Institute, Carlsruhe.
2
Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795–1878, DSB). Professor of Anatomy at the University of Leipzig, 1821–1871.
3
Johann Rudolph Wagner (1823–1880, P2, 3). Professor of Technology at the University of Würzburg.
4
That is the 1862 International Exhibition in London which opened on 1 May 1862. Ann.Reg., 1862, 104: 77-82.

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