Faraday to George Eliot   28 January 1858

Royal Institution, 28th Jan. 1858.

Sir,-

I cannot resist the pleasure of thanking you for what I esteem a great kindness: the present of your thoughts embodied in the two volumes you have sent me1. They have been, and will be again, a very pleasant relief from mental occupation among my own pursuits. Such rest I find at times not merely agreeable, but essential.- Again thanking you, I beg to remain, your very obliged servant2,

M. Faraday

George Eliot, Esq., &c., &c.

1
Eliot (1858). See letter 3383.
2
Eliot, Diary, 30 January 1858, p.294 noted “Received a letter from Faraday, thanking me very gracefully for the present of the ‘Scenes’”.

Bibliography

ELIOT, George (1858): Scenes of Clerical Life, 2 voumes, Edinburgh.

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