Faraday to John Britton1   10 February 1836

Royal Institution | Feby 10th 1836

Dear Sir

I am much obliged by the copy of the note. As I mentioned to you in the Philosophical Transactions for 1739 at page 59 is a letter by the Revd Dr. Clayton2 on the occurrence of fire damp in a ditch and an experiment which he made in consequence on the spirit of coal3. It is the earliest artificial coal gas light I know of[.]

I have not your autographs[.]

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J. Britton Esq | &c &c &c

1
John Britton (1771–1857, ODNB). Antiquary.
2
John Clayton (1657–1725, Hunter et al. (2001), 36). Irish divine.
3
Clayton (1739). For the history of this letter, written at some point between 1687 and 1691, and its publication, see Hunter et al. (2001), 220.

Please cite as “Faraday0890a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0890a