Benjamin Humphrey Smart to Faraday   16 August 1855¹

[Athenaeum letterhead] | Athenaeum, Augt. 16,1855.

My dear Sir,

You are quite right - I ought not to have asked your permission² - indeed that was not my meaning, nor do I understand you to have granted any; but without your knowledge I could not have felt justified in the step I wished to take.

I send the page - it will not be worked off for at least a week. Should you therefore see that any correction of any kind is desirable, pray mark it and return the proof:- otherwise you need not take the least further trouble, but believe me.

My dear Sir | Ever Sincerely Yours | B.H. Smart

Mich. Faraday Esq