Faraday to Benjamin Hawes1   27 June 1827

Royal Institution | June 27, 1827

Dear Sir

Mr. Millington2 asked me on the part of the Editor of the Literary Gazette3 for an account of the Friday Evening4 and I said I thought I could get one for I remembered your saying you should like the opportunity of putting in a statement[.] Will you draw one up and either send it to me or to the Editor as you think fit? I suppose you have heard all this before from Mr. Brunell & Your father5 but I was willing to make quite sure & called yesterday for that purpose. I hope you received the things drawings &c &c safe and I hope still more earnestly that the work advances will & steadily[.]

I am dear Sir | Yours Very Truly | M. Faraday

Best respects to Mrs Hawes6.

1
Benjamin Hawes (1797–1862, ODNB). Businessman, Whig politician and son in law of Marc Isambard Brunel.
2
John Millington (1779–1868, ODNB). Professor of Mechanics at the Royal Institution, 1817–1829.
3
William Jerdan.
4
See Lit.Gaz., 30 June 1827, p.410 for an account of Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse of 15 June 1827 on the Thames Tunnel.
5
Benjamin Hawes (1770–1860, B1 under Benjamin Hawes). Chairman of the Thames Tunnel Company.
6
Sophia Macnamara Hawes, née Brunel (1802–1878, GRO). Married Hawes in 1820; see his ODNB entry.

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