James Clark to Faraday   8 September 1855

Birk Hall | Sep. 8h 1855

My Dear Faraday,

I have heard that it is your intention to be at the meeting of the British Association at Glasgow this month, & I called in Albemarle Street the night before I left London, to ascertain if such was your intention. My object was to ask you, if you did go to Glasgow, to come on for a few days, or as long as you can stay, to Birk Hall - we are only 40 miles from Aberdeen, & just in the mouth of the Highlands, where the air is most bracing, and will I doubt not do you much good & enable you to work with more than your usual energy during the winter. I have asked Liebig to come, & you might come together, - from Glasgow to Aberdeen is a short day. Sleep at Douglas Hotel & a coach, which reaches Aberdeen next morning at 10.45 o’clock will bring you to Ballater a little before 4 oclock[.] There I will meet you & Birkhall is only two miles further. If you go to Glasgow, I do hope you will come on, as I am persuaded a visit to our hills will be very beneficial to your health & give us great pleasure to see you[.]

Very faithfully yours | Ja Clark