Faraday to John Knowles1   8 May 1828

Royal Institution | May 8th 1828

Dear Sir

I beg to send you some blank tickets2 – fill up the names & date[.] If you have occasion for more admissions put the extra names on a list & they shall be passed at the door[.]

I will look after what you tell me about Sir Robt Seppings3[.]

I have just received your account4 & think it excellent. I shall send it off immediately[.]

I am dear Sir | Very truly yours | M. Faraday

John Knowles Esq | &c &c

1
John Knowles (1781–1841, ODNB). Chief clerk in the Surveyors Department of the Navy Board. Wrote on naval matters.
2
For admission to Friday Evening Discourses.
3
Robert Seppings (1768–1840, ODNB). A Surveyor of the Navy, 1813–1832.
4
Knowles delivered the first of two Friday Evening Discourses entitled ‘The Rise, Progress, and Present State of Naval Architecture in Great Britain’, on 2 May 1828; the second was delivered a fortnight later. This letter probably refers to the account of his first Discourse published in Lit.Gaz.,10 May 1828, p.298. See Knowles to Faraday, 19 May 1828, letter 355, volume 1.

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