Faraday to Benjamin Abbott   10 January 1816

R.I. Jany 10th. 1816.

Dear Abbott

Many persons spend years in seeking honour but still being unsuccessful call themselves miserable and unfortunate but what are their cases to mine who when honor waits for admission am obliged to refuse her entertainment. But so the fates or the unlucky stars or the gods or something else have decreed and I am obliged to dissent from your arrangements for thursday.- It happens that my time for this week is completely cut up and so that I cannot cut it over again[.] On Thursday evening I expect my old Master Mr. Riebau at the Institution and I shall be out both Friday and Saturday Evenings[.]

It is impossible to look forward so clearly into the next week I mean to mention one. I can scarcely see any thing in it but Wednesday¹. But I will write you again at the end of the week in answer to your first and hope I shall not write in vain. Accept my Sorrow & excuses on this occasion and believe me as ever

Yours Sincerely | M. Faraday