1Faraday to Henry Bence Jones   5 May 1866

Hampton Court Green | S.W. | May. 5. 1866

My dear Friend

I have received through Mr. Vincent a copy of the resolution the Members passed last Tuesday, concerning me2. I feel much gratified by their warm remembrance, and I now write to ask you to return my affectionate thanks at the next opportunity.

I am Dear Dr Bence Jones | your friend affectionately | M. Faraday

Dr B Jones FRS | &c &c &c

This letter is black-edged.
RI MS GM, 1 May 1866, 7: 89 ‘That the Members cannot close their Annual Meeting without a kind remembrance of their valued and esteemed friend, Professor Faraday, and desiring to convey their Sympathy to him in his indisposition’.
Only the signature is in Faraday’s.

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