Faraday to Benjamin Vincent   26 May 1846

Royal Institution | 26 May 1846

My dear friend,

I grieve very much that I have not been able to do anything efficient in the case of your brother¹ for I know how much I can trust your recommendation and am quite ready to trust my own justification to my friends upon it. But I do not know Coll. Sutherland² & cannot therefore write to him & I have sought amongst my particular friends to find some one who knows the Coll but have failed. I have applied amongst my military friends at Woolwich to Sir George Whitmore³, Coll. Jones and Coll. Sabine all of whom would have interested themselves for me if they had known Colonel Sutherland - I learn also from Sabine that Coll. Colby⁴ would not be likely to help me or else I would write to him. I send you these details that you may see I am truly anxious for you but that as yet my anxiety has been of no avail.

I do not see that you can be wrong in writing respectfully to Coll. Sutherland and I hope if you do write that you will by his kindness succeed in your object[.]

I am | My dear friend | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Mr. B. Vincent