Faraday to Henry Bence Jones   19 February 1866

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead]

My dear friend

I cannot dissmiss [sic] from my mind the grievous loss you have had had in your dear son1 and though I fear to intrude upon you & his dear mother I cannot let the time go bye without a word of sympathy for you both, ------ but how vain are human efforts to console at such a time.

I am as always | Yours with affection | M. Faraday

Monday | 19 Feby. 1866

1
Ralph Noel Bence Jones (1845–1866, Bence Jones (1929), 21). Bence Jones’s second son who died on 17 February 1866. Student at the Royal College of Chemistry during 1865 at at Oriel College, Oxford in 1866; see McLeod Diary, passim.

Bibliography

BENCE JONES, Henry (1929): An Autobiography with elucidations at later dates, London.

Please cite as “Faraday4577,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday4577