Nicholas Carlisle to Faraday   6 April 18321

Sir,

As Secretary of The Society of Antiquaries, I am desired by The President2, to return you their Thanks, for your Communication of an analysis of the liquid contained in a glass vase discovered in an ancient Barrow, on Thursday3 Evening last4:<_> The Society think themselves much obliged to all who will assist in promoting the useful purpose of advancing Science, for which they are incorporated;

and I am | Sir | With much Respect | Your most Obedient humble Servant | Nich Carlisle

Somerset Place. | 6th April 1832.

Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c &c


Address: Michael Faraday, Esq | Royal Institution | Albermarle St

1
Nicholas Carlisle (1771-1847, DNB). Antiquary and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries from 1806.
2
George Hamilton Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784-1860, DNB). Tory politician and President of the Society of Antiquaries, 1812-1846.
3
That is 5 April 1832.
4
Letter 547 was included in Gage (1832), 13-17 which was read then.

Bibliography

GAGE, John (1832): “A letter ... to Hudson Gurney ... accompanying a Plan of Barrows called the Bartlow Hills, in the parish of Ashdon, in Essex, with an account of Roman sepulchral relics recently discovered in the lesser Barrows”, Archaeologia, 25: 1-23.

Please cite as “Faraday0564,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0564