Faraday to James Lewis   11 January 18371

Royal Institution | 11 Jany 1837

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge your very complimentary & flattering letter and beg you will do me the favour to return my sincere thanks to the Liverpool Literary Scientific & Commercial Institution for this mark of its approbation. I hope that next year or rather this year I may be so circumstanced as to be at Liverpool2 which town I have never seen but for a quarter of an hour3[.]

I am Sir | Your Obliged & Obedient Servant | M. Faraday

James Lewis Esq | &c &c &c


Address: James Lewis Esq | Secretary | &c &c &c | Literary Scientific & Commercial | Institution | Liverpool

1
Unidentified.
2
At the British Association held that year in Liverpool which Faraday did attend. See letter 1027.
3
Presumably on his way to Dublin in 1834. See letter 731.

Please cite as “Faraday0964,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0964