Thomas Young to Faraday   20 December 1827

Admiralty 20 Dec. 1827

Sir

I hereby request on behalf of the Board of Longitude, that you will continue, in the furnace built at the Royal Institution, the experiments on glass, directed by the joint Committee of the Royal Society and the Board of Longitude, and already sanctioned by the Treasury and the Board of Excise[.]

I am, Sir | Your obedient servant | Thomas Young MD | Sec. Bd. Long.

Michael Faraday Esq | Royal Institution