Faraday to Arthur-Auguste De La Rive   21 March 1856

Royal Institution | Mar 21, 1856

My dear De la Rive

Though unable to write much I cannot longer refrain from acknowledging your kindness in sending me such a remembrance of you as the Vol II ¹ and in giving utterance to the great delight with which I have read it. I rejoice to think that such a work should be reprinted in the English language for now when asked for a good book on Electricity, I know what to say. I will not say that I envy you for your wonderful stores of knowledge regarding all that concerns our beloved science but I cannot help contrasting your power with mine and wishing for a little of the ability by which a mind such as yours calls up to present remembrance what it had found worthy to lay up in its treasury. But we both have reasons of a higher nature than any that science can afford to be thankful for that we have received & not to forget the many benefits bestowed upon us and I hope that I am not envious of you or of any man but would rather rejoice in your exaltation. With the kindest remembrance of Madame de la Rive & of yourself

I am My dear friend | Most truly Yours | M. Faraday

Address: Monsieur | Mons A. de la Rive | Geneva