Richard Partridge to Faraday   27 November 18351

Apartments of the Medical and Chirurgical Society | 53 Berners Street, Oxford Street. | Nov: 27, 1835

Sir,

I have the honor to inform you that, at a meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society held on the 24th Inst you were unanimously elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society, and I am directed by the President2 to request the favor of your attendance at the Society's next meeting (to be held on Tuesday, December the 8th at 1/2 past 8 p.m) for the purpose of enrolling your name on the list of Fellows and of being formally admitted into the Society3.

I take this opportunity of sending you a list of the Fellows and a copy of the Society's charter and Bye-laws.

I have the honor to remain | Sir, | Your obedient Servant | Richard Partridge | Chirurgical Secretary.

To | Professor Faraday.

1
Richard Partridge (1805-1873, DNB). Surgeon.
2
Henry Earle (1789-1838, DNB). President of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1835-1837.
3
This Faraday did. Private communication from Elizabeth A. Rogers, Archivist of The Royal Society of Medicine.

Please cite as “Faraday0843,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0843