Faraday to Percy Drummond   28 December 1829

Royal Institution | Dec. 28th 1829

Dear Sir

I hasten to send you the paper which I thought I was to keep. I see no objection to any part of the regulations though I am not sure that the keeping notes &c as proposed is the best proof of progress in the study[.] It would be easy to make up a book of notes whilst very little of what they were about might remain in the mind[.] If I can only imbue some with a love of the study and so set emulation at work amongst the Cadets I shall hope for more good from that than anything else. I have been confined to my room by indisposition & obliged to intermit my Laboratory Lectures here[.] This prevented me from giving you trouble on Saturday last and now I fear it will be a week or two before I can see Woolwich.

I am Sir | Your Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

Coll Drummond | Lieut Governor | R M Academy