Faraday to William Savage   21 May 1840¹

Royal Institution | 21 May 1840

My dear Sir

I am very greatly obliged by the copy of your elaborate work. Though I hardly expect that the great labour you have undertaken will be remunerated yet I hope the pleasure your active mind must have felt will in some degree repay you[.] I am very sorry to hear that you are suffering just now under one of your attacks of gout & hope it will soon be over but what are we to expect otherwise[.] I, like you, am daily receiving hints of the natural course of things[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Your Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

Wm. Savage Esq | &c &c &c