Mary Somerville to Faraday   12 March 1853¹

Genoa 12th March 1853

Dear Dr Faraday

Your papers on electricity which you so kindly send to me from time to time give me infinite pleasure because they are most valuable in themselves, and because they show me that your health permits you to continue your invaluable experiments[.] Besides it is most gratifying to be remembered by you and to find that time and absence makes no change to your friendship.

I sincerely trust that Mrs Faraday is well, we all pass our best wishes to her, to you and to your niece who I hope is as successful as she used to be in raising exotic plants.

We go to Florence in April and shall be glad if we can do anything for you there[.]

Yours ever sincerely | Mary Somerville