Faraday to John Tyndall   7 September 1865

Green, | Hampton Court, | 7 Sept. 1865.

My dear Tyndall,

Many thanks for your experiment: it is beautiful. I made it last night, but thinking there might be a little pyrotechny about it, waited until dark before I set it off, and so lost the opportunity of remarking as closely as we might have done the particular facts of the evolution of force.

Having kept the results of the combustion until this morning, I can only refer the phenomena &c. to the power and [blank in TS] of Brodie’s¹ strange form of [blank in TS], or the oxide of carbon, which I have shown once or twice to foreign philosophers. But whatever the arrangement, it is very neatly made.

My wife’s letter to you is gone, and I write irrespective of her matter to express to you the pleasure your kindness has given you [sic]. If I am right about Brodie’s share in the [blank in TS], and you meet him at Birmingham², remember me kindly to him.

I write as you see, confirming [sic] myself in ever line, but believe me ever yours, | M. Faraday

Dr. Tyndall | &c. &c. &c.