Faraday to Thomas John Fuller Deacon   10 April 1851

Royal Institution | 10 April 1851

My dear Friend

I must thank you before I get into the full business of the day: when that begins I am pulled from Pillar to post at this part of the Season. That is doubly the case just now because tomorrow evening I must talk about atmospheric magnetism¹. Caroline knows a little of that matter[.]

Your translation was just what I wanted[.] I have altered a few technicalities & sent it in to the Royal Society²[.] The subject is an exceedingly curious one but rather out of my way but it was sent to me by Nobert from Pomerania with a highly characteristic English German letter³ which needed no translation[.]

I hope you [are] now in comfortable lodgings & feeling occupied & cheerily so[.] Sometimes we have too much to do & sometimes too little - and we should go strangely wrong if there were not one over us who is always caring for us even for the most unworthy & the most rebellious, who is the preserver of all men. Give my Love to your wife & to the little impertant [sic] Miss Constance - also to Mr Paradise[.]

Ever Your affectionately | M. Faraday

Mr. Deacon