Faraday to Ernest-Charles-Jean-Baptiste Dumas   11 December 1849

Royal Institution | 11 Decr. 1849

My Dear Sir

I was grieved to see a card with your name on it & the name of my friend Dr. Milne Edwards but without an address lying on my table when I returned home from the Sea side and I only this morning learned that you were somewhere in Leicester Square. I have just returned from the Sabloniere where I was told that you were gone out & Dr. M. Edwards gone to Paris. I have a meeting at 4 o’clock with our managers but shall endeavour between this & then to call again that I may see the son of my kind friend. Besides I think that you & I are personally acquainted for surely I had a most pleasant afternoon & evening with you & your father in the Jardin des Plants and also with Mama¹. If I should be so unfortunate as to miss you do not fail to give my kindest & affectionate remembrances to M. Dumas and as far as it is proper to Madame[.] There are many on the continent whom I respect & esteem very highly but there are none other to whom my feelings are of the same kind as to them.

To Dr. M. Edwards too do not forget me and though I have a bad memory ask him whether he thinks I can have forgotten his kindness to me when I was at your house that he asks for a letter of introduction? - not that I at all object to it since it brought me the handwriting of M. Dumas²[.]

I suppose I should hardly know you again if I saw you. Yet believe me to be Most Truly Yours | M. Faraday

M. Ernest Dumas | &c &c &c