George Wilson to Faraday   17 February 1855

Elm Cottage: Edinburgh | Feb: 17: 1855

Michael Faraday Esq

Dear Sir

Will you do me the honour to accept a copy of the enclosed lines on the late Edward Forbes¹. He so often exchanged expressions of esteem and admiration for you, that the thought of him seems naturally to bring you up, and I feel as if I owed it to you to send you these inadequate verses.

I have engaged to write his life. If from your important engagements you could spare time enough, to indicate by a line or two, how he deported himself, and was received as a Lecturer at the Royal Institution I should feel deeply indebted²; but I know too well how many and important are the demands on your time, to wonder if you decline to accede to my request.

I remain | Yours very truly | George Wilson