Edward Sabine to Faraday   14 October 1834

Dear Faraday,

I have just received a letter from Mr Ritchie which I enclose to you, and beg you to take care of it till I call and learn from you the best answer I can give him in regard to the kind of audience he is likely to have, and the kind of lectures he had better therefore prepare¹.

I send you also a letter I have received from Count Rurdir². In stating to him the terms which you were so good as to tell me were those which you have been accustomed to receive for similar instruction to that which the Count is anxious to obtain, I expressly stated that your opinion was given without any view whatsoever of giving him the instruction yourself, which I further added was not likely owing to your considerable engagements. You will perceive that the Count is very unwilling to part with the hope that he may be a pupil of yours. Possibly, as you are not this year to undertake the Woolwich Lectures³ you might undertake the office. And I doubt whether you would ever have taught a person more zealous to learn. If you cannot, do think of someone who next to yourself could do it best. He is a person whom it [is] worth taking pains to obtain him the best instruction.

Most truly yours | Edward Sabine

Oct. 14

Endorsed by Faraday: 1834