Faraday to William Hasledine Pepys   21 November 1826

Royal Institution | 21 Novr 1826

Dear Sir

I delayed answering your note till yesterday that I might learn from Mr. Daniell1 the feelings of our Managers at the Board[.] I have however not seen him but I understand from Mr. Brande there was not the slightest obstacle to my accepting your Proposition2[.] I must call upon you some day in a week or two to get information relative to some points as to days hours time &c &c[.]

I also intend to ask you whether you will allow me to mention in my forthcoming work the highly useful little apparatus which you were so good as to shew me for the transference of gas in small portions over mercury &c3[.]

I am Dear Sir | Your Obliged | M. Faraday

Wm. H. Pepys Esq | &c &c

1
Edmund Robert Daniell (d.1854, age 61, GRO, B1). Secretary of the Royal Institution, 1826–1843.
2
That is for Faraday to deliver between February and May 1827 a course of twelve lectures on chemical manipulation at the London Institution. This was originally proposed at the meeting of the London Institution Managers on 16 November 1826, LMA CLC/9/MS 3076/3, f.118. He was paid £100 for the Course, ibid.,14 June 1827, f.128. The proposal appears not to have been discussed by the Royal Institution Managers. Faraday’s notes for the lectures are in RI MS F4 C.
3
Faraday (1827a), 340-1.

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