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will accept it kindly. — I have had and still feel part of a strengattack of giddiness, so must not write much. If Dr. Yates 1 seesyou do me the favour to reeeive him as my friend; if he shouldnot be able to see you, still he has promised to send on thisletter and the paper. — You remember a little word that pasedsabout a translation of a certain book. 3 Now a young man ofmy acquaintance who is a corrector of the press and acquaintedwith many languages, more or less, has had some thoughts oftranslating it if he could find a bookseller to publish it — buthe has not found that yet. — I told him you were connectedwith the author of the book and that from what / knew heought to write to you first. — I beüeve he has done so. — Isaw him the other day and found that he had no knowledgeof any publisher as yet; indeed that he had not inquired amonghis connections in the trade or intended to do so tili he heardfrom you. — I wish the book more published in our language— and I wish the translation were made at Bale. — But it isthe undertaking publisher we want and I am afraid that in thatrespect both plans will fall through. — However I do not knowMr. Vincents resources or connexions; — all that I know is heis in a printing house and can manage that part of the affairand its expences in a very different way to what I could.

I reeeived your letter by a friend not long ago and con-clude you had one from me by post about the same time.

With kindest remembrances to Mrs Schcenbein and the

family I am as ever

Your faithful friend

M. Faraday.

My wife is not with me just now or she would desire tojoin me in every good wish to you M. F.

1 James Yates F.R.S. at first a clergymen, retired into private life in 1848;he was borti in 1789 at Toxteth Park and died in 1871 at Highgate.

2 vide note 1. p. 92.

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