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Æt. 9-10.

9l. the quarter, Michael, who was nine years old, was given by his parents one loaf weekly, and it had to last him for that time.

In 1807 James wrote to his brother Thomas at Clapham—'I am sorry to say I have not had the pleasure of enjoying one day's health for a long time. Although I am very seldom off work for a whole day together, yet I am under the necessity (through pain) of being from work part of almost every day.' . . . And then, after speaking of some Church matters, he says—'But we, perhaps, ought to leave these matters to the overruling hand of Him who has a sovereign right to do what seemeth good to Him, both in the armies of heaven and amongst the inhabitants of the earth.'

On July 29, 1809, he wrote to the same brother—'I never expect to be clear of the pain completely with which I am afflicted, yet I am glad to say that I am somewhat better than I formerly was. . . .

'We are about to remove very shortly, so that you will be good enough to direct your next as follows—18 Weymouth Street, near Portland Place, London.'

There he died on October 30, 1810.

Faraday's mother died in Islington, in March 1838. 'She was very proud of her son; so much so, that Faraday asked his wife not to talk to his mother so much about him or his honours, saying she was quite proud enough of him, and it would not be good for her. Usually she called him "my Michael." She would do nothing whatever without his advice, and was quite contented and happy in being supported wholly by him in her declining years. She had not had any advantages of education, nor was she able to