London | Royal Institution | 19 January 1856
My dear kind friend
Yours of Yesterday has decided me1. I will come but I will come when the year is more advanced. But your letter has made me very bold and I have done a thing which I should not have had courage to do without it. I have written to the Emperor2 and sent it through your Ambassador here3. I had had a notice from the Chancellerie of the Legion of Honor4 and wrote a reply to it with sincerest thanks but durst not do more. Now I have been very bold I hope not too bold and I am sure that you will do me the justice to believe I would not intrude. Thinking to see you before very long. I am ever more & more
Yours affectionately | M. Faraday
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