Martin Archer Shee to Faraday   29 March 18241

Cavendish Square. Monday March 29. 1824

Sir

I had not the honor to receive the Prospectus of the new Club for the Cultivators and Patrons of Science, Letters, and Art, which you mention to have sent to me, some time ago, by order of the Committee.

In answer to the application with which I am now honored, I beg you will express my best acknowledgements to the gentlemen of the Committee, for the opportunity which they have been so good as to allow me of becoming a Member of so distinguished a Society, and at the same time have the goodness to state the regret with which I decline the flattering distinction which such an association would confer2.

I have the honor to be | Sir, | Your most obedient humble Servant | Martin Archer Shee

<-> Faraday Esq

1
Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850, DNB). Portrait painter.
2
Shee was elected to the Athenaeum in 1830. See Waugh [1894], 131.

Bibliography

WAUGH, Francis Gledstanes [1894]: Members of the Athenaeum Club from its foundation, np.

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