Faraday to Edward Brown Fitton   29 December 1856¹

29. Decr. 1856 | Royal Institution | London W.

Sir

I am greatly obliged by the account you have sent me² of a natural phenomenon which though I have never witnessed it has often been described to me in one form or another by those who have had that good fortune. Your account quite tallies with the rest & agrees with what we know of electrical action though as far as I remember the season of the year is rather unusual: but who can limit natural phenomena. I do not know that you were in any particular danger but you must have been involved in a very highly charged condition of the atmosphere & earth[.]

I am Sir | Your Very Obliged Servant | M. Faraday

E.B. Fitton Esqr | &c &c &c