Thomas Sherratt to Faraday   31 October 1864

9 Westmoreland Place. | Westbourne Grove North. | Bayswater - | 31 October 1864

Sir,

I wrote to you some 2½ years since about certain Manifestations which had occurred to myself & relatives of a kind generally known as of a spiritual character¹.

I have been induced to keep an account of them & the two Nrs. of the Magazine which I take the liberty of inclosing contain each a paper of mine on that subject².

I would beg to call your attention more especially to that in No 10 as being, as far as it goes, a result of our experiences. Magnetism being the means of producing them, but as that is a comprehensive word I must leave others more skilled than myself therein, to define the peculiar kind productive of those phenomena.

Mr. T.J. Pet[t]igrew³ whom I have the pleasure of knowing stated some time back in his Obituary of the Associates of the B. Arch. Assn. that Mr W. Newton⁴ (whom I also knew) had been when young a member with himself of a society formed for the investigation of scientific subjects & which had resulted in much good to all -

And if I am rightly informed you was also a Member thereof.

I hope therefore that you will look on the inclosed as an effort to follow in that direction, humble & distant tho it be -

Allow me with the Greatest respect to remain Sir | Your Most Obedient Servant | Thos Sherratt

Professor Faraday. | FRS. &c. &c. &c.