Faraday to Charles Louis Barreswil¹ and Aimé Girard²   6 June 1861

Messu | MM Barreswill & Aime Girard | &c &c &c

Royal Institution | 6 June 1861

Gentlemen

I thank you most heartily for your great kindness in sending me a copy of the two first volumes of your work “Dictionnaire de Chimie Industrielle”³[.] I cannot think why you should think me worthy of this favour for as I become older & very forgetful it seems to me that I hardly deserve to be remembered among or by the active spirits that are now working for science. But I do deeply thank you though I cannot hope for any future result to my labours that may honor & justify your kindness[.]

Ever | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday