Henry Storkes to Faraday   31 January 1839¹

My Dear Sir

I have just seen our friend, Mr McGrath, & he tells me, you have done me the honor, to purchase my portrait². I exceedingly regret, you have allowed, any [word illegible] so far to run away with you; and I should have been most happy, to have presented one, myself to you, had I known your wishes: without the expression of them, such an act would have put to the blush, that storehouse of modest faces Westminster Hall³[.]

I am | Yours faithfully | Henry Storkes

Serjents Inn | Jany. 31, 1839