Marc Isambard Brunel to Faraday   8 February 1826

Feb. 8th 1826.

My dear Sir

The Drawings and specification of the Gas Engine will be at your disposition and I should be glad to be of your party on Friday next1: I wont engage however to be there.

Isambard is gone to Chester on a Mission of much importance of which I am proud to say he is perfectly competent2. Though young he has indeed the stability and perseverance of a mature age[.]

I should like very much to hear of Mr Dl. Moore being at the meeting on Friday, because I have had some communication with him in which he expressed great interest for you. If you tell him of the proposed lecture or illustration, in time, he may make a point of being there.

The Drawing will be ready tomorrow.

I am My Dear Sir very truly yours | Mc. I. Brunel

Could you come here this evening, I shall put you au fait of our invention &c please to answer per Bearer whether you can be here.


Address: W. Faraday | Royal Institution | Albemarle Street | Piccadilly

1
Faraday gave a Friday Evening Discourse on Brunel’s condensing gas engine on 10 February 1826. See Quart.J.Sci., 1826, 21: 131-2. See note 1, letter 208.
2
This was probably connected with the Dee Bridge project. The Brunels did not win this contract. Clements (1970), 78-9.

Bibliography

CLEMENTS, Paul (1970): Marc Isambard Brunel, London.

Please cite as “Faraday0282,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0282