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Charles Lyell to Faraday   30 June 1831

Dear Sir

I intend to avail myself of your kind offer for Monday1 to bring a lady & gentleman at 10 o clk to see the experiments2. The Party who were so particularly anxious to see them cannot be in town, but they will pass through again in a week, & if on Saturday the 9th of June3 (wh is the only day they will have) you could shew them the battery &c. you would do me a great favour. On Monday morning you can tell me this. Dr. Somerville4 asked Dr. Fowler5 to come on Monday & he asked Lady Lansdown6 so that you will have 7 or 8 persons, & personages.

Yours very truly | Cha Lyell

Thursday


Endorsed by Faraday: June 30, 1830 [sic]

Address: Mr Faraday Esq | Royal Instn

1
That is 4 July 1831.
2
Possibly on crispations which Faraday showed David Brewster on 1 July 1831. Faraday, Diary, 1 July 1831, 1: p.350.
3
July intended.
4
William Somerville (1771–1860, ODNB). Physician to the Royal Chelsea Hospital, 1819–1838.
5
Probably Richard Fowler (1765–1863, ODNB). Physician who wrote on galvanism.
6
Louisa Emma, Marchioness of Lansdowne, née Fox-Strangeways (1785–1851, ODNB under Lansdowne). Married 3rd Marquis of Lansdowne in 1808.

Please cite as “Faraday0500a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0500a