Unpublished paper, 'A suggestion intended to confirm Franklin's theory of electrostatics by explaining the phenomenon of repulsion between bodies negatively electric' by James A Smith Smith suggests that in negatively electrified bodies the redundant matter must have a tendency to escape, thus the equilibrium of its cohesion is destroyed, and two bodies in such a condition must mutually repel each other. Subject: Physics / Electricity Received 19 June 1845 / 30 January 1846. Communicated by Samuel Hunter Christie. An abstract of the paper was published in volume 5 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'Suggestion intended to confirm Franklin's Theory of Electrostatics by explaining the phenomenon of Repulsion between bodies negatively electric'. June 1845