Henry Bailey1 to Faraday   20 September 1816

Althorp Septr 20th 1816

Sir,

By desire of Earl Spencer2 I enclose you the Meteorological Journal for June July & August which His Lordship judg’d best to be done in case you might be deficient in the others as well as that of June3[.]

I am Sir Your very | obedient Servant | Henry Bailey

Earl Spencer is now at Althorp.


Address: Mr Farraday | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | London

1
Henry Bailey (d.1841, age 66, GRO). Park steward and gardener at Althorp.
2
George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834, ODNB). President of the Royal Institution, 1813–1827.
3
Published as ‘Meteorological Diary for the Months of June, July, and August, 1816, kept at Earl Spencer’s Seat at Althorp, in Northamptonshire’, Quart.J.Sci., 1817, 2: 216-8.

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