1Faraday to James Scott Bowerbank2   14 March 18553

R Institution | 14 Mar 1854 [sic]

My dear Sir

I would rather not be one of your Club at its first foundation. My reason is that I am continually objecting to proposals to sit &c and urging (what is true) that I dislike putting myself forward in shape or aiding in doing so. If I were to help to found the Club I should be justly chargeable with inconsistency on this point; so I hope you will do without me for the present[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J.S. Bowerbank Esq | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged. See note 1, letter 2942.
2
James Scott Bowerbank (1797-1877, DNB). Geologist.
3
Dated on the basis that this is the reply to letter 2950 and also that it is black-edged. See letters 2942, 2948 and 2962.

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