Faraday to Edward Magrath   11 May 1835

R Institution | 11 May 1835

Dear Magrath

I send you the order[.]

I was a good deal annoyed at finding I had been delayed at Mr Gages house1 beyond the time of being at the Athenaeum[.] I did not reach home till past 1 oclk[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

See "Royal Institution Laboratory Notebook, 1830-1861", 11 May 1835, RI MS HD 8b, pp. 63-6 for Faraday's description of objects from the tumulus in the Bartlow Hills. See also Letter 802 and Gage (1835).

Bibliography

GAGE, John (1835): “The recent discovery of Roman sepulchral relics in one of the greater Barrows at Bartlow, in the parish of Ashdon, in Essex”, Archaeologia, 26: 300-17.

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