Faraday to Benjamin Abbott   18 July 1815

RI. July 18th. 1815

Dear Ben

I would fain leave this letter unwritten if I could and I do not see much occasion for it as it will be but a mere repetition of the last except that you desire it. I am again obliged to decline your invitation to be of your party for it so happens that I am at present included in a chain of engagements which will occupy for many sabbaths to come my evenings and I may say my afternoons also[.]

In answer to your question I will inform you that I have now taken possession of my nest again¹[.] When I see you here which I hope will be shortly (but not tomorrow evening) you shall know why I left it[.]

I wait for your Fugitive essay with great impatience but pray do not let it be too sublime or too poetical or I shall make my remarks on it in my mother tongue[.] A good master would give me as a first lesson a subject which would bear treating in language of an easy construction and I hope you will not give me the 10th Chap of Nehemiah the first time you find me at School[.]

I am as always Yours | M. Faraday