Faraday to Hannah Mary Reynolds1   28 September 1837

Royal Institution | 28 Septr. 1837

Dear Madam

The pleasant hours that I spent at your house2 and the kindness I received there make me glad of an opportunity of writing to thank you once more for that which I so freely used; even though the occasion is trifling as the present one: but having obtained the nets I spoke of I now send them. Remember they are not for such a dish as the one you gave me the receipt for but for common place hard current dumplings things perhaps which you never saw but which are nevertheless very good things of their kind. The dumplings when put into its net is to be tied up tight (but not squeezed) and when turned out after baking presents <-><-> but you must make the experiment3.

Herewith I send also two copies of the paper written by Dr. Moll4 of which I spoke to Dr. Reynolds5[.] Will you give them to him with very sincere thanks on my part for all his kindness. I have seen Mr. Daniell but once since he came home but he could speak of nothing then but your reception of him[.] It will indeed be a very long time ere we shall meet without thinking of you all at Liverpool[.]

I am My dear Madam | With great respect | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Mrs. Reynolds

1
Hannah Mary Reynolds, née Rathbone (1791–1865, Greg (1905), 205). Married William Reynolds in 1831.
2
Which Faraday visited while attending the Liverpool meeting of the British Association. See Faraday to Sarah Faraday, 12 September 1837, letter 1027, volume 2.
3
See Faraday to Reynolds, 15 July 1854, letter 2867, volume 4.
4
Gerard Moll (1785–1838, DSB). Professor of Physics and Director of the Observatory at Utrecht who criticised the ‘Decline of Science’ debate in England in [Moll] (1831).
5
William Reynolds (1803–1877, Greg (1905), 204). Physician at Liverpool Infirmary. Cook (1981), 56, 132.

Bibliography

COOK, A.L.M. (1981): Liverpool's Northern Hospital, 1834-1978, Liverpool.

GREG, Emily, (1905): Reynolds-Rathbone Diaries and Letters 1753-1839, [Edinburgh].

Please cite as “Faraday1035a,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1035a