Faraday to Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas   3 July 1848

Royal Institution | 3, July 1848

My dear Dumas

I am very anxious about you & long to know how you and Madame Dumas are[.] My dear wife too joins me in this anxiety[.] You cannot have escaped trouble for it seems to me that in Paris every one must have been in trouble¹[.] However fortunate in their personal circumstances they must have been anxious about others. Even at this distance & perhaps as you may think without right we are anxious about you[.] If I could know by a single line how you are it would be consolation in some degree. I am afraid to ask after M. Arago & the many others to whom I am tied by deep feeling for it is scarcely possible all should have escaped trouble but I think of you & them continually[.]

Ever My dear friend | anxiously & affectionately Yours, | M. Faraday

Address: A Monsieur | le Professeur Dumas | &c &c &c &c | Jardin des Plantes | à Paris

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