Faraday to John Constable   16 February 18361

Royal Institution | 16 Feby 1836

Dear Sir

Yesterday I made your offer to the Managers which they receive with many thanks and you will have a letter expressing their obligations2. I write only to say I have had great pleasure in being an instrument in arranging the affair[.]

[?I am / ? Ever] Dr Sr | Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

John Constable Esq R.A. | &c &c &c

1
John Constable (1776-1837, DNB). Painter.
2
RI MM, 15 February 1836, 8: 401 accepted Constable's offer to provide gratuitously a course of four lectures on landscape painting to be delivered after Easter (3 April 1836). See Parris et.al. (1975), 8-9 for a detailed account of Constable's lectures.

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