Royal Institution | 27 Mar 1838
My dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you and greatly honored by Mrs. Macready's1 invitation to dinner but it is now several years since I have dined or gone out and I cannot break through my rule (which is a very strict one) without giving serious offence to many kind friends: so I trust you & Mrs Macready will excuse me[.]
I take the liberty of sending you a copy of my last communication to scientific men2. It is not that I suppose it can have the least interest to you; but I send it as a fitting personal testimony, on my part, of the respect which I have for that man, who at the same time that he has the power, has the will also, to correct and refine the taste and feelings of the public.
I am My dear Sir | Your Very Obliged Servant | M. Faraday
W.C. Macready Esq | &c &c &c
FARADAY, Michael (1838a): “Experimental Researches in Electricity. - Eleventh Series. On Induction”, Phil. Trans., 128: 1-40.
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