Joseph Blanco White to Faraday   18 December 18291

Oriel Coll. Oxford Decr. 18th. 1829

My dear Sir,

Having engaged to write a paper on Music for the Ashmolean Society I take the liberty to trouble you that you may have the goodness to inform me whether you have published any thing on the vibrations of Musical sounds. I believe you once lectured on that subject, though I had not the pleasure of being present2. I shall be very much obliged to you for your assistance, either by directing me to books, or lending me any notes of yours in M.S.. In the latter case I beg you will send me a parcel by the coach addressed as above.

Trusting you will excuse this trouble I remain | My dear Sir | Yours ever Truly | J. Blanco White

To Michael Faraday Esq.


Endorsed by Faraday: Monday at 1 o’clk

Address: Michael Faraday Esq | Royal Institution | Albemarle St

1
Joseph Blanco White (1775-1841, DNB). Spanish-Irish Anglican Priest.
2
White could have had a number of Faraday’s lectures in mind. See Jeffreys (1960), numbers, 156, (156), 160, 164 and 167. White’s lecture was entitled “On Musical Sounds”. Murphy (1989), 151.

Bibliography

JEFFREYS, Alan E. (1960): Michael Faraday: A List of His Lectures and Published Writings, London.

MURPHY, Martin (1989): Blanco White: Self-banished Spaniard, New Haven.

Please cite as “Faraday0418,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0418