Faraday to Jean-Baptiste Biot   27 June 1857

Royal Institution | 27 June 1857

My dear & honoured friend

I long to perform the duty of offering my deep respect to you with the warmest wishes for your happiness and I rejoice to think that in doing so I may introduce to you Dr. Tyndall. I know your true & catholic love for the workers in Science & that when they are young you are pleased to encourage them by your own example and I do not think you will consider me imprudent upon the present occasion but will as I hope think I have chosen a fitting messenger for the sincere affection and deep feeling which I permit myself to bear towards you[.] Hoping and desiring that you will very long offer to science the example of a sound mind in a sound body a pleasure to yourself & a rejoicing to all around you[.]

Believe me to be as Ever | Your Very faithful Servant | M. Faraday

a Monsieur | Monsieur Biot | &c &c &c &c