Faraday to Miss Crum   19 August 18631

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead]

My dear Miss Crum

I write to you with many thanks for your kind call & remembrance of us both when and since I saw you[.] I arrived in London Yesterday Morning and was reminded of you all the way home by the pleasant refreshment your Grapes gave me[.] It called to my thoughts very vividly the like kindness which either Your father2 or Uncle3 supplied me with when I returned home from Aberdeen four years ago or more4 & then came rushing in remembrances of all the delight I had there for very much of which I had & have to thank you[.]

Ever Yours faithfully | M. Faraday

1
Dated on the basis of Faraday’s departure from Glasgow given in letter 4353.
2
Walter Crum.
3
James Crum (d.1861, age 55, SRO). Cotton merchant and uncle of Margaret Thomson.
4
From the Aberdeen meeting of the British Association in 1859. See Faraday and Sarah Faraday to Crum, letter 3642, volume 5.

Please cite as “Faraday4354,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4354