Faraday to Mary Buckland   7 February 1854

Royal Institution | 7 Feby 1854

My dear Mrs. Buckland

We have received your kind remembrance and thank you most earnestly for it. It is an odour which I very much delight in but my head will not bear it for long time together so I put them in a glass cover them over & take a sniff now & then. It is so with the Jasmine & the hyacinth:- and it is so with many things in this world[.]

My wife has been & is very much indisposed. She has very little strength for walking or any kind of exercise and at present from the addition of a prolonged & heavy cold is very deaf. She feels your kind expressions deeply[.] I wish she were able to take advantage of your hearty good will: but she sends you her very sincere thanks & earnest wishes for your health & happiness[.]

I am glad to hear a little now & then of the Dean and that the circumstances are known under which he feels quiet & in repose. Such being the case surely no one would wish to press in upon his attention & disturb him.

I remember that upon a former occasion you wished to know when Dr. Conolly spoke here. That only is the reason why I send you the enclosed paper in relation to next Friday week the 17th instant¹.

I have put bye your last letters so carefully that I cannot [find] them and my memory has let slip with every thing else your address, so that I must send this to the Cloisters. I hope they will forward it[.]

Ever My dear Mrs. Buckland | Your Faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Endorsement: Taken out of an envelope & forwarded | FTB²

Address: Mrs. Buckland | Deanery | Westminster