Faraday to William Frederick Pollock   8 August 1854

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | Royal Institution | 8 Aug 1854

My dear Pollock

You are very kind and so is Mr Haywood¹ to whom I have just written and I can hardly be sufficiently grateful for the present invitation and for others I have received from Liverpool². I have told Mr Haywood that if I am able to see Liverpool it will only be for a day or two & that I must then go to a Hotel. I hardly know what I shall be able to do for what with my desire to work at this time of the year and the forbidding instructions of Dr B. Jones (under whose hands & Sir B. Brodies I have just been) I cannot tell what will happen[.] Many thanks for your great kindness[.] If I go to Liverpool I shall most surely see Mr Haywood.

Our kindest regards to Mrs Pollock[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

W.F. Pollock Esq | &c &c &c

Endorsed by Pollock: Relating to the meeting of the British Association at Liverpool in 1854, when Frank Haywood of Edge Lane Hall, wished to secure Faraday as one of his guests, and had begged me to convey his invitation to Faraday | W.F.P.