Humphry Davy to Faraday   7 May 1819

Florence May 7

Dear Mr Faraday

Any thing you may send here I shall receive. I have got the flies & lines. If Mr Newman could find some means of sending me to Civita Vecchia two bags of snipe shot No 10 (I believe) I should be much obliged to him, it is not dust shot, but the next largest size <.> thus.

If my Brothers promotion has not taken place I beg be so good as to bear this letter to Sir James McGrigor¹ or send it².

Any parcel going by sea may be directed to our Consul Civita Vecchia - his name may be learnt at the foreign office Downing Street³.

Pray send this letter to my Brother p[os]t paid.

I write in a great hurry to secure the post.

Always your sincere well wisher | & friend | H. Davy

I should like 12 copies of my paper on mist but in reading your letter again I see it is struck off⁴. In a letter from Dr Marcet He informs me that Sir Jos: Banks has sent my Report to government to the Journal of the Royal Institution to be published⁵. It was never intended for publication & I beg you will make a formal request in my name to the Editor that it may not be published unless the Prince Regent has expressly so commanded which, I think cannot be the case. H.D.

Endorsed: Recd May 26th 1819

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