Faraday to Edward Magrath 6 December 1851

Royal Institution | 6 Decr. 1851.

My dear Magrath

The progress of Old time bringing with him in my case as in all others the usual effects tends with me to the diminution of income and therefore necessarily the diminution of pleasures depending upon it. One of the first of these which I am constrained to give up is my Membership at the Athenaeum. Will you therefore have the goodness to communicate to the Committee my resignation[.]