Faraday to George Biddell Airy   2 June 1840

Royal Institution | 2 June 1840

My dear Sir

I esteem it exceedingly kind of you to ask me to the Visitation dinner¹ and should have enjoyed the pleasure very much if I could have been with you. I think my rule of not dining out though very strict would scarcely have withheld me but I am in fact quite shut out from the enjoyment by the circumstance of the day being lecture day with me here & full of occupation[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Your obliged & faithful | M. Faraday

G. Biddle [sic] Airy Esq | &c &c &c