Faraday to Edwin Atherstone   29 April 1831

Royal Institution | April 29, 1831

My dear Sir

I write in great haste & therefore shortly in answer to yours. Montgomery1 is now lecturing on Poetry here he began last Tuesday2 & will continue on the next five Tuesdays3. I do not think it necessary therefore to mention the matter to the Managers because it could not be arranged this Season & I do not know that you would wish it talked of without. I am sorry that we are prevented by circumstances from considering your offer. I should have much enjoyed hearing you in this place4.

I hope your courses will be agreeable to yourself & that next time I see you I shall hear you express your satisfaction at the results.

I am dear Sir | Most faithfully Yours | M. Faraday

Edwin Atherston Esq | &c &c


Address: Edwin Atherston Esq | Taunton | Devonshire [sic]

1
James Montgomery (1771–1854, ODNB). Poet and lecturer.
2
That is 26 April 1831.
3
See RI MS Le2, p.17.
4
Atherstone’s offer to deliver a course of lectures on poetry was discussed at RI MM, 6 June 1831, 7: 411 and referred to the Lectures Committee. He did not deliver a course during 1832 or later.

Please cite as “Faraday0494a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0494a