Faraday to Charles Vincent Walker   19 February 1858¹

Royal Institution | 19 Feby 1858.

My dear Sir

We accept your present of a graphite plate² with many thanks. It seems to be an excellent plate in strength & according to your account in action & every other point[.] How wonderfully electricity in its apparatus applications services & students indeed in all points is advancing over both matter & mind - the earth & the human being on it. I am delighted to find that your system of telegraphing is justifying itself in real practice for that is the end we look for in all these things:- it is just when the matter as a novelty is fading out of the minds of men generally that the full & confirming proof is obtained of its real & permanent value[.]

I am My dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C.V. Walker Esq | &c. &c. &c.