Faraday to Percy Drummond   1 March 1833

Royal Institution | March. 1. 1833

My dear Sir

I have this moment been subpoenaed off in an imperative case - for next week to Wales1 and hasten to ask you to defer the opening of the Lectures to the 13th when I will be with you. I have tried all means of getting off this matter but cannot. It is a most serious evil to me for the week happens to be full of important engagements[.]

I hope I shall not inconvenience you much & that you will help me over that part of the difficulty which consists in engagement at the Academy[.]

I am Dear Sir | Most truly Yours | M. Faraday

Coll Drummond

I wrote only an hour ago to Marsh2 I should be at the Lecture room &c &c as be needful. Could you do me the kindness to send him a note saying how things are. | MF


Endorsement: Answered 2 March[.] The lectures will be postponed & Mr Marsh shall have due notice[.] P.D

1
See "David v Vivian and Vivian, 1832 Brief for the Defence", University College Swansea, Yorkshire Imperial Metals MS, f.64 for Faraday's evidence that the defendants had done all they could to prevent the emission of noxious fumes at the Hafod Copper Works and were thus not creating a nuisance of which they had been accused. The defendants won the case. See Toomey (1979), 286-7. See also Faraday to Vivian, 5 June 1830, letter 448, volume 1.
2
James Marsh (1794-1846, DNB). Chemical assistant at the Royal Military Academy.

Bibliography

TOOMEY, Robert R. (1979): Vivian and Sons, 1809-1924. A study of the Firm in the Copper and Related Industries, University of Wales, PhD thesis.

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