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FARADAY, Michael (1791-1867). Autograph letter signed to Mr B. Abbott (at Lewes), Royal Institution, 16 May 1836, 3 pages, 4to, address panel (seal cut, endorsed by the recipient).
Written 'from the Laboratory where I must remain to make an experiment', and describing the intensity of his work.
'You may imagine my toil and occupation when I tell you that within the last fortnight I have given order to the Porter in the Hall that I will see no one for future on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturdays, or on other days after 4 [o]cl[oc]k ... I have not made an experiment of research for the last two months and I find myself engaged in anybody's business but my own'. The letter touches also on 'modern experiments on sound' which are 'very beautiful and interesting but require much apparatus of a peculiar and nice nature', and refers to mutual friends, denying rumours of his departure [from the Royal Institution].
Faraday was current engrossed in his research into electricity, and the pressure of his work precipitated his illness shortly after the date of the letter.
Apparently unpublished (not in The Letters, ed. F.A. James, 1993).
Written 'from the Laboratory where I must remain to make an experiment', and describing the intensity of his work.
'You may imagine my toil and occupation when I tell you that within the last fortnight I have given order to the Porter in the Hall that I will see no one for future on Tuesday, Thursday or Saturdays, or on other days after 4 [o]cl[oc]k ... I have not made an experiment of research for the last two months and I find myself engaged in anybody's business but my own'. The letter touches also on 'modern experiments on sound' which are 'very beautiful and interesting but require much apparatus of a peculiar and nice nature', and refers to mutual friends, denying rumours of his departure [from the Royal Institution].
Faraday was current engrossed in his research into electricity, and the pressure of his work precipitated his illness shortly after the date of the letter.
Apparently unpublished (not in The Letters, ed. F.A. James, 1993).
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