Charles Wentworth Dilke1 to Faraday   6 March 1862

76 Sloane Street SW. | 6 March 1862

My dear Sir

I am extremely obliged by your kindness I hardly know which I prefer, thus are both so very good. I enclose mine2, not half as good as either of yours.

Yours Truly | C. Wentworth Dilke

Dr Faraday F.R.S.

1
Charles Wentworth Dilke (1810–1869, ODNB). Active member of the Society of Arts, a member of the Executive Committee of the 1851 Great Exhibition and a Commissioner of the 1862 exhibition.
2
This portrait of Dilke is in RI MS Conybeare Album, f.27.

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