Angela Georgina Burdett Coutts to Faraday   11 May 1859

Torquay. | May 11./59.

Dear Mr Faraday

I am most obliged by the Ozonometer which quite answers for all I want but I cannot detect the least trace of any Ozone here - We have been so sorry to hear of Mr Barlows Indisposition and sincerely hope he is now convalescent. We are neither of us quite well & Mrs Brown who says to be kindly remembered, very far from well and in consequence our leaving this place is delayed. As we have some visits to pay en route to London when we shd move I am very much afraid I shall not be present at my friend Mr Pengelly’s¹ Lecture on the 27th² which I much regret, for I take much interest in the subject and still more in himself his history, (I mean that of his mind) is so extremely interesting, and he is one of those Philosophical & refreshing instances of perseverance under difficulty in the acquirement of knowledge, from a love of the thing itself & not as a means of getting on in life which is so Insistently put forward by Educationalists. I am really inflicting a long letter instead of a simple note of thanks so conclude only adding Mrs Browns remembrances

Very Sincerely | A.G. Coutts.

Would you say to Mrs Faraday with my kind remembrances that there is I hear a very nice Opera at Drury Lane³ and if she would like my Box any night next week would she let me [know] and I will send an order.