Faraday to Martin Archer Shee   3 December 18391

R Institution | 3 Decr. 1839

My dear Sir

I am most grateful for your kindness but no pleasure such as that you offer me awaits me. Within these few days I have been cupped on both temples & am ordered off to Brighton for perfect rest to which place I go tomorrow morning2[.]

Ever Your Very Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

Sir M A Shee Bart | &c &c &c

1
Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850, DNB). Portrait painter.
2
Faraday had been taken ill on 29 November 1839, the main symptom being vertigo. Peter Mere Latham had attended and recommended a complete rest in Brighton. See Hare, E. (1976), 33-6. For Latham's notes on Faraday see WIHM MS 3176, entries for 1 and 3 December 1839.

Bibliography

HARE, Edward (1976): “Michael Faraday's Loss of Memory”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 49: 33-52.

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