Humphry Davy to Faraday   23 September 1818

Venice. Sept 23 | 1818

I wrote a few lines & enclosed some notes to you a few days ago. Sir George Staunton1 took charge of the letter. I write again to beg that if there are any Letters for me you will be so good as to forward them to Rome, where I hope to be in about a fortnight. I inclose a letter for my brother. Will you be so good as to to [sic] forward it in the proper manner.

I will thank you if you will order for me <<from>> Mr. Newman 3 small thermometers: the smallest size, but very delicate the scale need not be lower than 5 nor higher than 180F - if they are made into a very small parcel I have no doubt Mr Hamilton would send them to Florence2. They must be made up as a letter. I want them for some new researches.

You will have laid out some money for me in the postage of letters &c if you please I will give you an order for my Banker to pay this.

I am anxious to see the journals & to hear the scientific news & above all I shall be very glad to hear of any thing you have done.

I am dear Mr Faraday | Very sincerely your friend | & wellwisher | H. Davy


Address: Mr Faraday | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | London | Angleterre

1
George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859, DNB). Diplomat and politician.
2
By virtue of their office Under Secretaries of State were entitled to free postage on letters in Great Britain provided they weighed less than two ounces. See Imperial Calendar, 1821, p. 204. Presumably those who worked at the Foreign Office had a similar entitlement for overseas letters.

Please cite as “Faraday0087,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0087