Thomas Leverton Donaldson to Faraday   May 1835¹

Institute of British Architects | 43 King Street Covent Garden | May 1835.

My dear Sir,

I have the pleasure of informing you, that the Members of this Institute, aware of the important discoveries, which have resulted from your profound researches in Chemistry, many of which are immediately connected with the science of construction, have done themselves the honor of electing you an Honorary Member without contribution. The Council and Fellows, in offering you this mark of their respect for your eminent talents, and in adding their testimony to the zeal, with which you have devoted yourself to the development of those laws, which still lie hid in nature, hope that that branch of science, more immediately connected with their pursuits, may continue to derive the advantage of your investigations.

I shall have the pleasure of forwarding you, as soon as printed, a copy of the Rules & Regulations as lately revised, and which will in the eyes of the members derive additional interest, as containing, among its list of Honorary Fellows, the name of one, who has rendered such effectual services to Science in general[.]

I beg to offer the renewed assurances of | respect and esteem, with which I am, | My dear Sir, | most faithfull and truly yours | Thos. L. Donaldson Hony Secr.

To Dr. Michael Faraday | M.I.B.A | &c &c &c