Faraday to Edward Codrington   2 June 1845

Royal Institution | 2 June 1845

Dear Sir Edwd

With many thanks for the present and former acts of kindness I return the boat safe1 I trust from the hands of the Messenger as it now is under my eyes. I find I make 30 or 40 feet into 5, but I do not wonder at it: for every day brings to me growing proofs of my loss of memory. I was formerly troubled at this but to be troubled by it now would be to spend my life in one stream of regret & disappointment so I bear with it as well as I can & hope my friends will too[.]

Ever Your Obedient & Grateful | M. Faraday

Admiral | Sir E. Codrington Bart GCB | &c &c &c

1
This was for Faraday's eighth lecture, given on 31 May 1845, on "Silver - lustre, reflexion" of his "Course of Eight Lectures on Certain Metals and Metallic Properties". For his notes for this course see RI MS F4 J5. This lecture was reported in Lond.Med.Gaz., 1845, 2: 711-6. His mention of the model boat, the bottom of which was silvered by electro-deposition, lent by Codrington is on p.715.

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