Faraday to Charles Bland Radcliffe1   20 February 1862

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 20 Feby 1862

Dear Sir

You do me justice in thinking I have some interest in the subject of your pursuits2 but my infirmity of head & memory obliges me to refrain from even trying to consider them. They require too much mental labour for a mind like mine[.] If I can be of any use to you I shall be happy to see you for a short time whenever you call - but do not count for much mental assistance or even the power of appreciation & judgment on any point[.]

Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

Dr. Radcliffe | &c &c &c

1
Charles Bland Radcliffe (1822–1889, ODNB). Physician at the Westminster Hospital, specialising in nervous diseases.
2
That is the relationship between electricity and living matter. See Radcliffe (1864).

Bibliography

RADCLIFFE, Charles Bland (1864): Lectures on Epilepsy, Pain, Paralysis and certain other Disorders of the Nervous System, London.

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