Faraday to Richard Phillips   4 June 1833

R Institution | June 4. 1833

Dear Phillips

Next Friday is to be filled by Mr Palmer1 the Engineer on the laws which govern the movement of shingles on our sea shores & the formation & prevention of bars at Harbour mouths &c &c 2[.]

I enclose you also a lecture ticket undated[.]

With best remembrances to Mrs Phillips3 & fam[ily.]

I am as always | Ever truly Yours | M. Faraday

Richd Phillips Esq

1
Henry Robinson Palmer (1795-1844, DNBmp). Engineer.
2
See Lit.Gaz., 15 June 1833, p. 377 for an account of this Friday Evening Discourse by Palmer on 7 June 1833.
3
Ann Phillips, née Rickman (DQB). Married Richard Phillips in 1807.

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