Faraday to Justus von Liebig   23 July 1863

Royal Institution | London | 23 July 1863

My dear Liebig

The arrival of the English translation of your work on the Natural laws of Husbandry¹, sent to me as from the author stirs up all my affection for him and makes me write to him; though I write no more philosophy or have any ability as an active philosophic mind. It is the past that moves me, the remembrance of all the dear thoughts & associations that I have in former years been permitted to share in;- & though I may have through wear & years to give up the race & fall into the rear yet it rejoices me to think that those who still run carry forward a kind remembrance of me[.] So thanks & again thanks my dear Liebig for the volume you have sent me[.] Though I write from London I am not there at present for I am sent out of town to rest - not my body so much as my bad memory & mind[.]

I hear of you continually and always as one of the powerful ones[.]

Ever My dear friend | Truly Yours | M. Faraday

The Baron | Justus von Liebig | &c &c &c