Faraday to Richard Northen   4 May 1833¹

Royal Institution | May 4th. 1833

Sir

I yesterday received your kind & very flattering letter² and beg you will return my respectful thanks to the Members of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society for the honor which it has thought fit to confer upon me. The pursuit of science constitutes my principal pleasure and it is doubly pleasant when as on the present occasion it obtains for me the approbation of men joined together for the like pursuit in other parts of the Kingdom[.]

I am Sir | Your Obliged & faithful servant | M. Faraday

Richd Northen Esq | &c &c &c | Sec. Hull Lit & Phil Society

Address: Richd Northen Esq | Secretary | Hull Literary & Philosophical Society | &c &c &c | Hull.