Faraday to John Tyndall   3 September 1855

ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. | 3 Sept. 1855.

My dear Tyndall,

Esteem my feelings as in the exact inverse proportion of my note, which is no fit answer to your very kind and pleasant letter¹. But I have been a good deal lowered by a persistent attack of diarrhoea, and which, though I think it has been stopped, has left its marks in giddiness and feebleness of head. I once had very feeble hopes of being at Glasgow² with you all, but they are all gone, and I find once more what I am good for:- nothing. I thought if I waited longer before I answered you, I might lose you at Queenwood, and only write you a more stupid note than the present. Your picture of Queenwood excites many past remembrances, but I have no hopes of converting them into futures. We have all been poorly here - Wife, Jane and self - but we are all mending. Jane is away from us. My wife sends her kindest remembrances.

Ever yours, | M Faraday

Prof. Tyndall, | &c &c &c