Faraday to Walter Rogers Johnson   24 February 1848¹

Royal Institution, London | 24 February 1848

Dear Sir

I have received your kind letter² and am exceedingly grateful for the honor which you inform me has been conferred upon me by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia in electing me a Corresponding Member. I can only say it is another strong motive in addition to the many I possess to exertion on my part that I may ultimately prove not altogether unworthy the approbation which is bestowed upon me.

For your own kind expression also I thank you most sincerely. I have at different times hoped to cross the waters and speak with my scientific brethren on your shores; but the longer this is delayed the less likely it appears to come to pass; and at present I see no signs of that time.

Believe me to be | My dear Sir | Most Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Walter R. Johnson Esq | &c &c &c | Academy of Natural Sciences | Philadelphia