Faraday to Alexander Stewart Herschel   31 January 1865

31 Jany / 65

My dear Sir

I received yesterday the second copy of the photograph¹ & I beg leave to thank you for it and to keep it for it has I think your writing on it which I value very much. Yet to keep them both is more than I ought to do; so though I have written on the first I return it to you[.]

Please give my respects & compliments to Sir John & also to Lady Herschel² they are very sincere on my part though I have an unusual way of showing it but what can a man do who remembers nothing rightly[.]

Ever My dear Mr. Herschell | Yours most truly | M. Faraday

A.S. Herschell Esq | &c &c &c