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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Newman
Date:
8 September 1853
Source of text:
PML Misc Ray
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Visit to Collingwood lifted JH's spirits. Finances for Mrs. Rennie. Received copy of [William?] Platt's latest work from Miss Lipscombe. Sends condolences to Miss E. Tunno. Hopes loss will set young gentlemen thinking about 'brainless ardours.' Returns books to Collingwood.
Reply to enclosed 'Reference,' then return it to 'Memorialists' by 20 Sept. Papers must be sent to [C. Rivers] Wilson at Boulogne.
Treasury commissioners seek JH's advice on feasibility of proposed observatory at Nottingham, to be funded by public money.
Seeks instructions about return of the measures to the Royal Mint.
Drafting the Standards Commission report is taking up all of GA's spare time.
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