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Faraday to Dominic Paul Colnaghi1   2 February 1833

R Institution | 2nd Feby 1833

Dear Sir

The Committee of Friday Evenings beg to thank you for your kindness in sending fine works of art yesterday to the Library2[.]

Hoping you will on other occasions favour us with such assistance I feel justified in sending you a card of admission for the Season and think you may sometimes find amusement amongst us[.]

I am | Dear Sir | Truly Yours | M. Faraday Sec

D. Colnaghi Esq | &c &c &c

1
Dominic Paul Colnaghi (1790–1879, ODNB). Print dealer of Pall Mall.
2
These were specimens of modern engraving, RI MS F4 F, p.80. See Athenaeum, 9 February 1833, pp.90-1 for an account of Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse of 1 February 1833 on ‘The Identity of Electricity Derived From Different Sources’.
3
This letter was from the collection of Thomas Francis Dillon Croker (1831–1912, ODNB under T.C. Croker), p.110. There is a short biographical profile of Faraday on pp.109-10.

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