Faraday to Peregrine Fuller Palmer Acland   9 February 18371

Royal Institution | 9 Feby 1837

Sir

I yesterday received through the hands of the Revd Burrell Hayley2 your kind remembrances of our late valued Patron of Science in the Royal Institution3 and beg to express my sincere thanks to you for the favour. I shall esteem it very highly not only on account of the kind & generous man whom its represents but also for the sake of him who is the giver[.]

I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Obliged & faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Sir Peregrine Ackland [sic] Bart | &c &c &c &c

1
Peregrine Fuller Palmer Acland (1789-1871, B1).
2
John Burrell Hayley (d.1850, age 69, AO). Rector of Brightling, 1805-1850.
3
That is John Fuller of whom Acland and Hayley were the executors. See RI MM, 5 February 1838, 9: 11.

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