Faraday to Charles Richard Weld   8 January 18491

R Institution | 8 Jany 1848 [sic]

My dear Sir

I am happy to say that in England I am not a Sir and do not intend (if it depends upon me) to become one. The Prussian Knighthood2 I am in hopes will appear in the list3 in its due form for in that I do feel honored, in the other I should not.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C.R. Weld Esq | &c &c &c


Endorsement: This letter was written in answer to one from Mr Weld desiring to know whether there was truth in a statement made by a writer in the Edinburgh Review (No Jan 1848 [sic]) that Faraday was now Sir Michael4.

1
Dated on the basis of the references contained in this letter.
2
See Humboldt to Faraday, 18 August 1842, letter 1420, volume 3 and Bunsen to Faraday, 21 August 1842, letter 1421, volume 3.
3
This was noted in the List of Fellows of the Royal Society in November 1848, but not in that of November 1847.
4
This was asserted in [Joyce] (1849), 48.

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