Faraday to George Biddell Airy   4 October 1852

Hampstead | 4 Octr. 1852

My dear Airy

I am greatly obliged by the volumes I have received¹. I long to look at them but whether I shall ever do so with understanding I cannot tell. I have much work to do in making my torsion balance right, and the power itself even in the most stable cases is such a restless fidgetly thing that it is difficulty [sic] to catch wholly & rightly though it ever presses definite in the end if well pursued. I turn many sometimes in my present course but I have learned to know that patient perseverance in experimental researches ever leads to some good or another and therefore I resist the desire I have to turn away to some other point before the one I have taken be brought to something like a resting place indicative[.]

With kindest respects to Mrs & Miss Airy I am | Most faithfully Yours | M. Faraday