Royal Institution | 27. July 1858
My dear Liebig
Having nothing of importance to communicate I must take advantage of a smaller matter to communicate with you - and yet it is no small matter that you should send me by Graham a mark of your good will in a piece of Glass silvered by Yourself1 - It looks very beautiful - I have not as yet heard how it is done for I have through the force of several circumstances been very irregular in my reading for some time past and very forgetful of what I have read.
Whenever I think of you I picture you to myself as well, & in good health[.] I hope in that that my expectations are true & yet I have a faint feeling of a report that you had not been in good health. My wife & I are both in the Country trying to re-energize but it is hard work[.] I think I feel the effects of 67 years this season more than I anticipated from the 66 of last year. Except this circulatory laziness I am very well[.]
Ever My dear Liebig | Yours Truly | M. Faraday
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