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Faraday to William Jerdan   30 May 1828

Royal Institution | May 30

Dear Sir

I send you last fridays account1 - tell me if they are at all too long or too numerous.

I also beg to send you a pamphlet written by a friend of mine - name at present unknown2[.] I think it gives a good view of the affairs of the tunnel and though I have no money interest in the thing yet I hope for its scientific character it will go on[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

- Jerdan Esq

1
Report on Brockedon’s Friday Evening Discourse of 23 May on Sievier’s gunpowder work. Lit.Gaz., 7 June 1828, p.361.
2
See review of Anon (1828) in Lit.Gaz., 14 June 1828, pp.375-6. The Thames Tunnel at Rotherhithe (on which Marc Isambard Brunel was the engineer) had collapsed, for a second time, on 12 January 1828. This prompted considerable public discussion and controversy as to its future and indeed work did not recommence until 1835.

Bibliography

ANON (1828): A letter on the Present State of the Affairs of the Thames Tunnel Company, London.

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