Thomas Webster to Faraday   23 May 1836

41 London Street | Fitzroy Square | 23d May 1836

Dear Sir,

It was but the other day I learned that you had mentioned me in your evidence before the Committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the Theatre of the Royal Institution. I immediately referred to the Report of the Committee in your Library and found that I had been rightly informed1.

I write now, therefore, to thank you for having done me the justice in stating that I was the architect. The whole of the principles by which I was guided in forming the design, together with many circumstances relating to its execution which have contributed towards that degree of perfection of which you was so kind as to speak, I really believe, from the various examinations I have read in the reports, and the designs which I have lately seen exhibited, are yet known only to myself.

I am | Dear Sir | Your Much Obliged Humble Servant | Thos Webster

To Michael Faraday Esq

1
Faraday gave this evidence before the Select Committee on the Ventilation of the Houses of Parliament on 7 August 1835. See Parliamentary Papers,1835 <(583)>, xviii, pp.55-61 for Faraday's evidence. His comments on Webster occur on p.61.

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