Faraday to Thomas Joseph Pettigrew   1836

R Institution | Tuesday Morning

My dear Sir

A friend has told me something about a desire you have to open a Mummy at our Institution some Friday Evg. Is this true. If so I will see you & talk about it but it must be arranged soon; for Friday the 27th May is probably the only evg I could manage it for1. Drop me a note.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

T. Pettigrew Esq | &c &c &c

See Lit.Gaz., 4 June 1836, p.361 for an account of Pettigrew's Friday Evening Discourse of 27 May 1836, in which he unrolled a mummy.

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