1Faraday to Charles Carter Blake2   21 January 1863

R Institution | 21 Jany 1863

Sir

Though it is against my rule (which is also the rule of Society) to reply as of course to a circular - yet I am induced to say that I am doing all I can to retreat from Societies & cannot therefore join a new one. The pressure of general distress makes this quite necessary in my case[.]

Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C.C. Blake Esqr | &c &c &c

1
This letter is black-edged due to the death of Margaret Barnard, see letter 4236.
2
Charles Carter Blake (1840–1897, GRO). One of the founders of the Anthropological Society which is presumably the society which Blake invited Faraday to join. Burkhardt et al.(1985–2010), 11: 800.

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