Edward Sabine to Faraday   18 November 1829

Dear Faraday,

We are looking rather anxiously for your paper for tomorrow, pray on your arrival1, endeavour to inform me by note to James Bandinal’s2 Esq, Little Cloyster, Westminster Abbey (or to Somerset House for tomorrow morning if it is out of your power to send it to the Cloysters) whether your paper is ready or not. We have papers for several days without yours, but as Mr. Gilbert3 wants to give you the Copley Medal, your paper ought, if possible, to be read tomorrow4.

Yours very truly | Edward Sabine

R. Institution, | Wednesday, Nov. 18.


Address: Michael Faraday Esq. | R.I.

1
From Brighton.
2
James Bandinal (1783–1849, ODNB). Superintendent of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office, 1824–1845.
3
Davies Gilbert (1767–1839, ODNB). Treasurer of the Royal Society, 1819–1827, President, 1827–1830.
4
The first part of Faraday (1830a) was read on 19 November 1829.

Bibliography

FARADAY, Michael (1830a): “On the manufacture of Glass for optical purposes”, Phil. Trans., 120: 1-57.

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