1884.1 
Wohler and Liebig. 
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Wohler to Liebig. 
“ June 8, 1829. 
“ Dear Professor, — Mr. Poggendorff has communicated to 
me the contents of your last letter, and I am glad thus to 
find an opportunity of continuing the correspondence that 
was begun last winter. Really there must be a demon in 
the case, who takes a certain pleasure in bringing us into 
collision by our work, and in making the public believe that 
we are adversaries seeking for apples of discord. He shall 
not succeed, however. If you like we might begin jointly 
some chemical work, and publish the results under both our 
names. The choice of the theme I leave entirely to you. 
At the end of July I hope to go to Frankfort, and to stop at 
Giessen, in order to have the pleasure of being once more 
in your company.” 
Liebig to Wohler. 
“ Giessen, June 12, 1829. 
“Your letter of the 8th of June has given me great 
pleasure. I joyfully accept your proposal of treating in 
communion the same subject, and shall be most happy to 
see you here in July, when we can talk over the ways and 
means more closely.” 
Only a few months later the friends are enabled to publish 
the results of their researches. There appeared in 1830 the 
first work that bears at its head the joint names of Wohler 
and Liebig (“ On the Composition of Mellitic Acid ”). 
In 1830 the Swedish savant Berzelius visited Germany, 
and Wohler was most happy to bring his friend into con- 
nexion with his former teacher, to whom he was bound by 
the strongest ties of gratitude. 
Wohler to Liebig. 
“ Berlin, August 25, 1830. 
“ Only a few lines in haste, dear friend, to inform you that 
Berzelius has arrived here yesterday. We all wish that you 
might go by Berlin on your way to Hamburg. It would give 
great pleasure to Berzelius, who has charged me to beg you 
in his name to comply with our request.” 
