Faraday to Charles Stokes   10 May 1835

Royal Institution | 10 May 1835

My dear Sir

I write now simply to ascertain whether I may depend upon the subject of Silicification for the 12th of June1. As I have to lecture every Saturday I am afraid to let the time approach without some degree of security for the Friday. If you say yes then we will meet for the serious consideration of the matter in the beginning of June according to your convenience2.

Ever Dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

C. Stokes Esq | &c &c


1
Stokes did not give the Friday Evening Discourse on 12 June 1835. Instead Henry Wilkinson (1794-1861, Wilkinson (1973), ii-iii, gun maker) gave it on the "History and manufacture of gun powder". See Lit.Gaz., 20 June 1835, p. 393.
2
See Lit.Gaz., 30 January 1836, p.72, for an account of Faraday's Friday Evening Discourse of 22 January 1836 on "Silicified plants and fossils" in which he used specimens from Stokes's collection.

Bibliography

WILKINSON, Henry (1973): Engines of War, Richmond.

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