Faraday to John Percy   21 May 18581

Royal Institution: May 21, 1857 [sic].

My dear Percy,

Your letter is very kind and earnest, and I thank you heartily for it, but I may not change my conclusion. None can know but myself how unfit it would be2.

Ever affectionately yours, | M. Faraday

1
Dated on the basis that this is the reply to letter 3442.
2
That is Faraday declined to be nominated as President of the Royal Society. Tyndall recollected Faraday expressing a similar sentiment at greater length and detail. Tyndall (1868), 266-7.

Bibliography

TYNDALL, John (1868): “On Faraday as a Discoverer”, Proc. Roy. Inst., 5: 199-272.

Please cite as “Faraday3443,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday3443