Royal Institution | 18th April 1834
My dear Sir
I owe you many thanks for your kindness in sending me a copy of your work1. It appears to be a very elaborate and accurate account and I shall read it at my earliest opportunity with the certainty of deriving great pleasure & instruction from it[.]
I am Dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday
T.W.[sic] Pettigrew Esq | &c &c &c
PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1834): A History of Egyptian Mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals by the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary Islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman Priests, London.
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