Peter Mere Latham to Faraday   7 May 1849

36 Grosvenor St. May 7, 1849

My dear Friend

I wish you were getting well a little faster than you are. Either your Doctor wants skill or the elements are against you. We will suppose the latter. For the sudden change from warm to cold in the last two days has stopt the convalescence of many an invalid. Mrs Faraday asks permission to give you a little wine. It is an experiment; but one which might fairly be tried. Take then half a glass of sherry after dinner tomorrow; and if it do not heat you or make the throat more husky & you are manifestly refreshed by it, take as much or even a little more on the following day.

My kind remembrance to Mrs Faraday.

Always, my dear friend, | Yours most truly | P.M. Latham