Faraday to John Barrow   8 January 1832

R Institution | Jany 8, 1832

Dear Sir

There are certain bills as follows

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which Dr. Roget tells me he has sent to you and you say are ordered for payment months ago but of which we can get no account at Somerset house (Pay office)1[.]

I find so little progress made in clearing up the matter by writing to Dr Roget that I intrude on you to ask whether they are or are not passed and if so where my man should go for the money2. The tradesmen ought to have had their money a twelvemonth ago.

If you could tell my Messenger who waits what to do next it would very much oblige[.]

Yours Very faithfully | M. Faraday

John Barrow Esq | &c &c


Endorsement: What appears[.] Nothing more than the inclosed ltr - You will however perceive that the amounts vary as well as the number of the claimants[.]

1
The Royal Society Council requested payment of these bills, which related to Faraday's work on optical glass (see James (1991)), on 9 June 1831. RS MS CM 9: 221.
2
See Roget to Barrow, 22 October 1831, PRO ADM1 / 4282 (Royal Society file) where he requested payment. Barrow replied that the order for payment had been made in July 1829. This order must have referred to those bills listed in Sabine to Croker, 2 July 1826, letter 406, volume 1, and explains the comment in the endorsement to this letter. See letter 535 for the outcome.

Please cite as “Faraday0528,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0528