Various philosophical notes of experimental investigation on foolscap paper, paged in series & partly bound in five volumes,1– a quarto MS. book of Philosophical notes,2– a second larger quarto of similar notes,3– some of my printed papers collected in two bound volumes & illustrated by letters &c, – the one quarto the other 8vo,4 and a bound copy of Davy’s chemical elements,5 being a copy of that which, whilst abroad in 1814–5, he prepared for a second edition, (which was never published);– these I offer for the Library of the Royal Institution, if the Managers should think them worth a place:– if not to remain at the disposal of my executors
Whatever my wife may think fit to give, from among my personal things, to relatives or friends as remembrances, will I hope be accepted as from both of us. We were always as one, and whatever she may do is what I should do.
I desire that, at my death, all cases in which I have become security should be put an end to, that they may not be continued over my wife. I only remember one, namely, for Mr Geo Whitelaw to Messrs Spottiswoods.6
16 January 1855 M Faraday.
Dr Tyndall | Dr Frankland | Mr Barlow | Dr Bence Jones7
Newcastle University Library, MS Album 38
Faraday Correspondence, 4:2932
Various philosophical notes … in five volumes: Frank James (Faraday Correspondence, 4:2932) references this as ‘RI MS F2 C–G. That is Faraday, Diary [ed. by T. Martin, 7 vols. (London, G. Bell, 1932)], 1828–1832, vol. 1, pp. 327–430.’
a quarto MS. book of Philosophical notes: James (ibid.) references this as ‘RI MS F2A. That is Faraday, Diary, 1820–1823, vol. 1, pp. 1–117.’
a second larger quarto of similar notes: James (ibid.) references this as ‘RI MS F2B. That is Faraday, Diary, 1820–1823, vol. 1, pp. 121–323.’
the one quarto the other 8vo: RI MS F3B and RI MS F3A.
Davy’s chemical elements: Humphry Davy, Elements of Chemical Philosophy (London: J. Johnson, 1812); annotated copy located at RI MS HD 29.
Geo Whitelaw to Messrs Spottiswoods: Faraday had stood surety for George Whitelaw (1804–72), a fellow member of the London Sandemanian community, who had been employed as a manager in a printing company; probably Eyre & Spottiswoode of East Harding St, off Fleet St.
Dr Tyndall | Dr Frankland | Mr Barlow | Dr Bence Jones: These names are not in Faraday’s hand.
Please cite as “Tyndall1030,” in Ɛpsilon: The John Tyndall Collection accessed on