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stränge memoirs on voltaic subjects thesc last two or threeyears. 1

I regret very much indeed that your last letter cuts off myhopes, of seeing you on the continent in the course of thissummer. If you vvon't come to me, you are running the risk ofhaving your privacy broken in upon by my humble Individual,but do not be afraid that such a thing will happen in the year 1843.

Mrs. Schcenbein and my childrcn are doing well, the latterwere during the whole vvintcr suffering a good deal by aviolent hooping-cough.

I confidently hope that the statc of your health will bedaily improving and the whole strength both of your body andmind entirely reestablished. Mrs. Schcenbein unites with mein her kindest regards to Mrs. Faraday and to yourself.

Ever Your's most truly

Bäle April 26. 1843. C. F. SCHOENBEIN.

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Schcenbein to Faraday.My dear Faraday

As a friend of mine is going to England, I takethe liberty to send you through him some papers in the Con-tents of which you will perhaps take some interest. I am rathersorry that one of the memoirs is written in german, I trusthowever that before long a french version of it will be pub-lished in the "Bibliotheque universelle" and in that case I askyou the favo[u]r to let me know, what you are thinking abouLthe views I have taken of the chemical effects which are pro-duced by contact. 2

1 Martens published the results of his investigations, which he commencedin 1841 in the Acad. Sei. Bull, at Brüssels. Sur la theorie de la pile voltaique,ibid. T. 9. 1842. p. 192.

2 vide note I. p. 106.