Faraday to John Kearsley Mitchell¹   15 August 1836

Royal Institution | 15 Aug 1836

My dear Sir

You judge rightly in supposing that I had not received your former kindness, but I have the latter; (though out of town when Mr Smith² did me the favour to call.) and most heartily thank you for it[.] I was not ignorant that you had thought my work worth printing³ and though I felt highly grateful when I received a French⁴ & a German⁵ copy yet my pleasure was vastly greater when I found it had been reprinted in another country having the same language as our own, amongst people who are brothers with ourselves, a nation which is at the same time another & the same[.]

We have been favoured by the visits of many of our friends from your mighty country this year and I was counting upon meeting Dr. Hare⁶ and several others at Bristol⁷ this month but unfortunately I have been seized with lameness in the right knee joint⁸ & am shut out from that & many other pleasures. There is now a chance of your seeing Dr Hare before I shall if so pray remember me kindly to him[.]

I intend to let this letter go by post. I hope I shall not put you to much expence by doing so but I would be very sorry to run any risk of my acknowledgements not reaching you[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Your Obliged & faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Dr. J.K. Mitchell | &c &c &c

Endorsed: Dr. Faraday now Sir Michael F – Chief of the Royal Institution London

Address: Dr. J.K. Mitchell | &c &c &c | Philadelphia | U.S.