Second Earl Spencer to Faraday   5 March 1833

Spencer House | 5 March 1833

Dear Sir

I thank you for your Note¹, & beg to repeat how much I have been flattered by the compliment paid to me by your kindness on the subject of Mr Pickersgill's Picture. I am afraid that the Artist, in painting it, has in regard to its correct representation of the original, insured the criticism of being reproved for anachronism, as it resembles what I may have been some score or two years ago, rather than what I am now; but as a Memorial of my best wishes for the welfare of the Institution, I am well pleased at its being placed there.

I am, dear Sir, | your very faithful | humble servant | Spencer

M. Faraday Esq