John Frederick William Herschel to Faraday   8 June 1826

Dear Sir,

I deferred answering your note under an impression I might possibly meet you at the RS tonight - that not being the case though late, I will make no further apologies, but merely state that my opinion as to the propriety of appending the remarks in my note to your paper¹ remains unaltered, even by your expression of a wish that they should be so - which I hope you will understand in the sense I mean it as originating in a sense of something like indelicacy towards the Society in its Secretaries publicly commenting on the contents of papers, which necessarily come into their hands before those of the Members & (however perfectly understood in particular cases) might tend to establish a precedent that might prove very inconvenient in future. I hope therefore you will not take it amiss if I still request you to look on the remarks as purely conversational, and I remain | dear Sir | Yours very truly | J.F.W. Herschel

Thursday June 8. 1826

Address: M. Faraday Esq | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street