Faraday to Roderick Impey Murchison   2 January 1845

Royal Institution | 2 Jany 1845

My dear Sir

I am very grateful for your kind letter¹[.] This Election has been to me a source of very unexpected and of very high pleasure. It was so free from influence & unthought of on my part that it comes to me with the highest character & without any anticipation or any alley [sic]. Again it has drawn forth so many expressions of kindness, such as your letter to me, as to add wonderfully to the gratification which if alone the honor was fitted to give. Aragos' goodness, Dumas' correctness (who wrote the instant after the Election² & out of the midst of the excitement of the decision which all were talking around him & to him) - the zeal of Becquerel Chevreul & indeed I may say my thirty four friends overwhelms me with feelings of gratitude[.]

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

R.I. Murchison Esq | &c &c &c