John Tyndall to Faraday   5 September 1855¹

Royal Institution

Dear Mr Faraday

Your note reached me this morning an hour before I left Queenwood. I was glad and sorry at once on reading it. Most sincerely do I hope that you will soon be quite strong again. It would have been a delight to me had you resolved to go to Glasgow², now I am not quite sure that I act right in going and your presence there would have been a kind of quieter to my conscience. I know I could employ my time far better at home, but then I should be deemed unkind. I had just got hold of my work - just established that affinity between me and it which is always a work of some pain to me when I am obliged to quit it, and to enfeeble that affinity by other employment. However as I grow older I shall see more clearly how I ought to act, how far conform with the requirements of others and how far follow out my own notion of things - good bye for the present - say good bye to Mrs Faraday for me

Most faithfully Yours | John Tyndall