Faraday to Henry Bence Jones   15 August 1859

The Green | Hampton Court S.W. | 15 Aug 1859

My dear friend

If you permit I am thinking of bringing my wife up to you some time in the week; and yet as the case may not require it I will tell you what it is. The left leg, as you know, is weak & I suppose partially paralysed:- the right has therefore more to do:- the left has become thinner & the right stouter, for some time past the right has been enlarging in front on the inside of the bone & has been of a higher temperature there, than elsewhere, or than the corresponding part on the left leg - but all this may be natural & the consequence of the different degrees of use of the two limbs. If you think so, could you by a single line say “Dont come up” - or else “come up”. We could be with you at ½ p 10 or after - either on Wednesday or Thursday Morning¹ - or later in the week if you liked.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Dr. B. Jones | &c &c &c

There is no appearance of inflammation or redness;- but a little heat shooting.