Michael Faraday, his life and work / by Silvanus P. Thompson.

  • Silvanus P. Thompson
Date:
1901
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: Michael Faraday, his life and work / by Silvanus P. Thompson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    52/346 page 34
    friends, but do' not tell everybody—that is, do not troubl'. yourself to do it. I am of no consequence except to a few, and there are but a few that are of consequence to me, and there are some whom I should like to be the first to tell myself —Mr. Riobau for one. However, let A. know, if you can. . . . Adieu till I see you, dearest Mother ; and believe me ever your affectionate and dutiful son, M. Faraday. [P.S.] Tis the shortest and (to me) the sweetest letter I ever wrote you. A fortnight after liis return to London, Faraday was re-engaged, at a salary of thirty shillings a week, at the Royal Institution as assistant in the laboratory and mineralogical collection. He returned to the scene of his former labours; but with what widened ideas! He had had eighteen months of daily inter- course with the most brilliant chemist' of the age. He had seen and conversed with Ampere, Arago, Gay-Lussac, Chcvreul, Dumas, Volta, De la Rive, Riot, Pictet, Dc Saussure, and De Stael. He had formed a lasting friendship with more than one of these. He had dined with Count Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution. He had gained a certain mastery over foreign tongues, and had seen the ways of foreign society. Though it was many years before he again quitted England for a foreign tour, he cherished the most lively recollection of many of the incidents that had befallen him.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3