Faraday to Henry William Pickersgill   19 March 18311

R Institution | Mar 19th

My dear Sir

The RS Council will not allow the picture to move but give you leave to copy at the Rooms2 - I write not waiting for the official forms to say that operations may begin whenever you please[.] The Assistant Secretary3 has orders to that purport[.]

Ever Most Truly Yours | M. Faraday

W H [sic] Pickersgill | &c &c &c

1
Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875, DNB). Portrait painter.
2
See RI MM, 14 March 1831, 7: 389 where it was agreed to ask the Royal Society for permission to make a copy of Thomas Lawrence’s (1769-1830, DNB, portrait painter) portrait of Davy (reproduced opposite). The Royal Society consented to this. See RS MS CM, 17 March 1831, 11: 193-4 and also RI MM 4 July 1831, 7: 417.
3
James Hudson (d.1859, age 55, B1). Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, 1826-1835.

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