Francis Baily to Faraday   28 December 1835

37 Tavistock Place | Dec 28. 1835

My dear Sir,

I was in hopes to have found you at home, to have delivered into your hands the two boxes which contain the Royal Medals1. I have left them with the Messenger at the door, & I should be obliged to you for a note, stating you have received them.

I also wished to show you the enclosed letter received from the Excise: which (when read) you can enclose in your note to me. You will be able to judge whether any special enquiry is necessary.

With the compts of the season, believe me most truly yours | Francis Baily

Prof. Faraday | D.C.L. &c &c &c

1
Faraday was awarded one of the Royal Medals of the Royal Society in 1835. See Anon (1940), 349. It is not clear why Baily was sending Faraday two medals. The other was won by William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865, DSB, Irish mathematician), ibid.

Bibliography

ANON (1940): The Record of the Royal Society of London, 4th edition, London.

Please cite as “Faraday0867,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0867