Faraday to James Tod1   1 December 1829

Royal Institution | Dec 1, 1829

Sir

I beg you will do me the favour to express to the Society of Arts for Scotland my sense of the honor that has been done me by my admission upon the list of their Honorary Members2 and to express at the same time my earnest desire that my future progress in science either speculative or useful may be such as never to give occasion to the wish that my name should be removed[.]

I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Obedient Humble Servant | M. Faraday

James Tod Esq | Secretary | &c &c &c


Endorsed: London 1sr Decr. 1829. M. Faraday on his Election as an Honorary Member Socy of Arts

Address: James Tod Esq | Society of Arts | Edinburgh

James Tod (d.1858, age 62, SRO). Secretary of the Society of Arts for Scotland for twenty nine years. Trans.Roy.Scot.Soc.Arts, 1858, 5: 110.
See Toll [sic] to Faraday, 26 November 1829, letter 414, volume 1.

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