1Faraday to Edmund Belfour2   15 January 1848

Royal Institution | 15 Jany 1848

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge very kind invitations both to the Hunterian Oration and to the Dinner on the 14th of next Month[.] I should rejoice in accepting both but of necessity may only take advantage of the former but my grateful thanks are due & are given for both the favours bestowed upon me[.]

I have the honor to be | Sir | Your Very Obedient Humble Servant | M. Faraday

Edmund Belfour Esq | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged. See note 10, letter 2046.
2
Edmund Belfour (d.1865, age 75, B1). Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1814-1865.

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