Charles Babbage to Faraday   9 September 1843

My dear Faraday,

I am not quite sure whether I thanked you for a kind note¹ imputing to me unmeritedly the merit of a present you received I conjecture from Lady Lovelace.

I now send you what ought to have accompanied that Translation².

So you will now have to write another note so that Enchantress who has thrown her magical spell around the most abstract of Sciences and has grasped it with a force which few masculine intellects (in our own country at least) could have exerted over it. I remember well your first interview with the youthfull fairy which she herself has not forgotten and I am gratefull to you both for making my drawings rooms the Chateau D'Eu³ of Science[.]

I am going for a short time to Lord Lovelaces⁴ place in Somersetshire. It is a romantic spot on the rocky coast called Ashley about 2 miles from the Post town Porlock.

I am | My dear Faraday | Ever truly Yours | C. Babbage

Dorset St | Manch Sq | 9 Sep 1843