Faraday to John George Perry   6 December 18351

R Institution | 6 Dec 1835

My dear Sir

I am very sorry I cannot help you but your latter application is more difficult than the former. The recommendation must be made by some person knowing the party proposed and by letter specifying particularly his works & claims, and as the number so admitted is limited however fit the person is he cannot be admitted unless there is a vacancy[.]

I think Lord Lyndhurst2 is a member of the Club3 and he had better apply by letter himself to the Committee[.]

Ever My dear Sir | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J.G. Perry Esq | &c &c &c

1
John George Perry (1802-1870, B2). Surgeon.
2
John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst (1772-1863, DSB). Lord Chancellor, 1834-1835.
3
Possibly the Athenaeum of which Lyndhurst was a member, Waugh [1894], 92 and of which Perry became a member in 1843, ibid., 115.

Bibliography

WAUGH, Francis Gledstanes [1894]: Members of the Athenaeum Club from its foundation, np.

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