Faraday to André-Marie Ampère   5 September 1827

Royal Institution | Sept. 5. 1827.

My dear Sir

I cannot resist the opportunity, which by introducing Mr Wyon to you I shall gain of reminding you of one who often thinks of you[.] The progress of Electro-magnetism is such as to occasion continual reference to your name and on these occasions I am proud of remembering our acquaintance and the cause of it although at the same time my pleasure is a little damped by feeling that my ignorance of mathematical knowledge is a barrier to much communication which would otherwise be of utmost interest to me[.] Whenever I think of Electro-magnetism I have fifty questions to ask you but they will not bear writing down[.]

Mr. Wyon whom I beg to introduce to your acquaintance is the gentleman who being engaged at our mint has cut the dies for our last new coinage and executed many other admirable works[.] Where you can with little trouble to yourself assist him in seeing any of your institutions relative to the arts it would be conferring an obligation on me[.] Though indeed the liberality of your nation is such that such assistance is by no means as necessary as in England[.]

Believe me to be | My dear Sir as ever | Your faithful & obliged Servant | M. Faraday

M. Ampere | &c &c &c