Faraday to Richard Charles Coxe   March 1859¹

<<A>>lbemarle St. W. | [MS torn] March 1859.²

My dear Archdeacon

I am daily subjecting the dearest thing I have in the world namely my wife to the currents of electricity in the faint hope that it may do good & improve muscular power but in the full assurance that it will do no harm. I do not know what good the Newcastle Man may do but I do not think he will cause any mischief unless he adopts very violent means[.] If after enquiry the person gave me reasonable proof that he had produced good in other cases I should <<let him try it>>³. I wish he may be successful & that you may tell me rejoicingly that such is the case[.] Electricity ought to do us good of this kind but I fear we do not know as yet the laws which would enable us to apply it properly[.]

Ever Your | faithful Servant | M. Faraday

The Very Reverend | Archdeacon Coxe | &c &c &c