Percy Drummond to Faraday   26 June 1829

Woolwich 26th June | 1829

Sir

It has been proposed to the Master General of the Ordnance¹ that a course of Lectures on Chemistry and Geology should be delivered annually to the Gentlemen Cadets of the Royal Military Academy at this place and I request that you will have the goodness to inform me whether you are willing to undertake this duty, and if so, what remuneration you would expect.

The Lectures would be delivered at the rate of one in a week and at a season of the year when the Lecturer would probably be least occupied in London[.]

A Lecture room belongs to the Institution and is provided with furnaces &c. There is a portion of the necessary apparatus, consisting of glass retorts, bottles &c[.]

I shall be in London tomorrow, and will endeavour to call at the Royal Institution before twelve o’clock; should I not do so, an early answer would oblige me, as I shall be absent from Woolwich for about a fortnight after the 31 of this month.

I am Sir | Your Most Obedient Servant | Percy Drummond | Coll. Lieut Govr R: M: Academy

Mr Farraday | &c &c &c