Faraday to John Wrottesley   14 April 18311

Royal Institution | April 14. 1831

Sir

On my return to town I received your letter & the Charter2 and they reminded me of the impossibility which has continually existed with me of attending the Meetings of the Society and the profiting by its activity[.]

Under these circumstances will you have the goodness to lay my resignation as a Member before the proper authorities & erase my name from the books.

I am Sir | Your obedient Servant | M. Faraday

J. Wrottesley Esq | Sec. Astron Soc.

1
John Wrottesley (1798-1867). Astronomer.
2
Faraday had been elected a member of the Astronomical Society on 9 June 1820 (RAS MS Cert. 94). The charter signed by George IV on 7 March 1830 and approved by the Society on 6 April instituted the Royal Astronomical Society. See Dreyer and Turner (1923), 50-2.

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