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Document number: 2892
Date: 26 May 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: FARADAY Michael
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA34-17
Last updated: 29th March 2012

Royal Institution <1>
26 May 1834

Dear Sir

I am not prepared either to agree or deny your reasoning. I am in doubt whether the action is of the direct chemical kind which you consider it but the doubt arises more from general notions than any particular reason and I have not time to think the subject over so as to say into what opinion of the causes which operate in the experiment I should finally settle <2>

I am Yours Truly
M Faraday

H. F. Talbot Esq MP
&c &c &c

Notes:

1. Royal Institution, London.

2. The topic of this chemical conversation remains a mystery. See Larry J Schaaf, Out of the Shadows (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 37].

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