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• Volume I Introduction Editorial Principles The Letters of Humphry Davy, 1793-1811 Volume II Editorial Principles The Letters of Humphry Davy, 1812-1818 Volume III Editorial Principles The Letters of Humphry Davy, 1819-1828 Volume IV Editorial Principles The Letters of Humphry Davy, 1829-64 Undated Letters Biographies Chemical and Technical Glossary Bibliography of Davy's Manuscript Notebooks and Publications General Bibliography Appendix A: Biographical Account of Davy Appendix B: Unlocated Letters Advertised for Sale at Auction, Not Included in This Edition.
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This is the first collected edition of the letters of Humphry Davy. Davy is a significant figure in both the history of science and literary history. One of the foremost chemists of the early nineteenth century, he was the first person to inhale nitrous oxide. He pioneered electrochemistry, using the Voltaic pile to isolate more chemical elements than any other scientist; and he invented the miners' safety lamp that came to be known as the 'Davy lamp'. His lectures and papers played a key part in the professionalization of science, in the growth of scientific institutions, and in the emergence of scientific disciplines. He was the protege of Thomas Beddoes and Joseph Banks, and the mentor of Michael Faraday. He was also a poet, and a friend of poets, including Wordsworth, Southey, Scott, and Byron. The edition contains fully annotated transcriptions of correspondence (much previously unpublished) with such figures as Joseph Banks, Thomas Beddoes, Joens Jacob Berzelius, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Faraday, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, the Herschels, the Marcets, Marc-Auguste Pictet, Nicolas-Theodore de Saussure, James Watt, Josiah Wedgwood, William Hyde Wollaston, and Thomas Young. The edition throws new light on Davy, on the histories of science and literature, and on the social history of the early nineteenth century. It illuminates scientific controversies over the safety lamp, the Board of Longitude, the Geological Society, and the Royal Society. It offers new perspectives on the 1790s poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey. It illuminates women's literary networks, reveals the links between science and government, and casts light on provincial and dissenting intellectual networks, among Quakers and Unitarians.
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• v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy / by his brother, John Davy
• v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with an introductory lecture and outlines of lectures on chemistry, delivered in 1802 and 1804
• v. 3. Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dephlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration
• v. 4. Elements of chemical philosophy as regards the laws of chemical changes: undecompounded bodies and their primary combinations
• v. 5. Bakerian lectures and miscellaneous papers from 1806 to 1815
• v. 6. Miscellaneous papers and researches, especially on the safety-lamp, and flame, and on the protection of the copper sheathing of ships, from 1815 to 1828
• v. 7. Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I
• v. 8. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. II. Miscellaneous lectures and extracts from lectures
• v. 9. Salmonia, or Days of fly-fishing; in a series of conversations: with some account of the habits of fishes belonging to the genus Salmo. Consolation in travel, or The last days of a philosopher.

• Ueber einige chemische wirkungen der electricität.--Ueber einige neue erscheinungen chemischer veränderungen, welche durch die electricität bewirkt werden, insbesondere über die zersetzung der feuerbeständigen alkalien, die darstellung der neuen körper, welche ihre basen ausmachen, und die natur der alkalien überhaupt.

• v. 1. Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy.--
• v. 2. Early miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, with and introductory lecture and outlines of lectures on chemistry, delivered in 1802 and 1804.--
• v. 3. Researchs, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration.--
• v. 4. Elements of chemical philosophy.--
• v. 5. Bakerian lectures and miscellaneous papers from 1806 to 1815.--
• v. 6. Miscellaneous papers and researches, especially on the safety lamp, and flame, and on the protection of the copper sheathing of ships, from 1815 to 1828.--
• v. 7. Discourses delivered before the Royal Society. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. I.--
• v. 8. Elements of agricultural chemistry, pt. II. Miscellaneous lectures and extracts from lectures.--
• v. 9. Salmonia, or days of fly-fishing. Consolation in travel, or the last days of a philosopher.

• I. The vision
• II. Discussions connected with the vision in the Colosaeum
• III. The Unknown
• IV. The Proteus, or Immortality
• V. The chemical philosopher
• VI. Pola, or Time.