Faraday to John Percy   18 March 1864

18 March 1864

My dear Percy

I have received your great work on Iron & Steel1 a wonderful result of your industry & acumen. The matter in it catches my attention every time I open it. I feel a little wearied by the thoughts of reading it, what must the thinking out of it have been to you. It seems to me like a continuous romance of life or rather of many lives[.] I do not wonder that you have been shy about lecturing here - nevertheless I am glad we are going to hear you after Easter2 & trust that the matter will not add to the residue of fatigue that must be upon you but act rather as a relief. I feel myself unworthy of your gift & kindness but still accept them & thank you very heartily for both[.]

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

Dr. Percy | &c &c &c

1
Percy (1864).
2
For an account of Percy’s Friday Evening Discourse of 8 April 1864, ‘On recent improvements in the smelting of iron and the manufacture of steel’, see Morning Post, 11 April 1864, p.3, col.f.

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