Faraday to James Emerson Tennent   19 January 1864

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 19 January 1864

My dear Sir Emerson,

I go to my desk & I take a sheet of paper intending to thank you and then I open your book¹ and my mind & the time are wiled away in forgetfulness of my object & thus I have been once & twice taken from my object. So now I will thank you first and I do so very heartily for your kind present. It is a most interesting work and is on my desk as a matter of continual interest[.]

Ever My dear Sir Emerson | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Sir J. Emerson Tennent | &c &c &c