Faraday to Carlo Matteucci   20 March 1857

Royal Institution: March 20, 1857.

I snatch a few weary moments to have a word with you in the way of thanks for your letters of news.

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I won’t pretend to send you any news, for, when I try to remember it, all is slow to me, and you are so active and spirituel that it seems to me as if you were out of my sight.

Perhaps you may be inclined to say as regards gravity, and that I am out of your sight¹; nevertheless, I have a strong trust and conviction,

I am ever yours, | M. Faraday