Faraday to Edmund Belfour   22 January 18521

Royal Institution | 22 Jany 1852

Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the very kind invitation for Saturday the 14th of next Month and beg to return my grateful thanks for it. I shall hope to avail myself for the Oration2 at three o clk but am obliged to decline the Evening Hospitality.

I have the Honor to be | Sir | Your Very Humble Servant | M. Faraday

Edw Belfour Esq | &c &c &c

1
Edmund Belfour (d.1865, age 75, B1). Secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons, 1814-1865.
2
That is the Hunterian Oration of the Royal College of Surgeons.

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