John Landseer to Faraday   11 May 18381

Southampton St Friday Evg

You having just nicked it my Dear Sir, & but just - as I was starting off to see a few country blossoms & enjoy a little fresh air. But I will now stay & go to the Artists benevolent fund dinner tomorrow2, where I will look about for you; & will take care to be back in time to read on the 25th. The title of my Lecture may be, as before mentioned On the Astronomy of the Book of Job3.

Yours Dear Sir | very Sincerely | J. Landseer

Mich Faraday


Address: Michael Faraday Esq | Professor &c &c &c | Royal Institution

Postmark: 12 May 1838

1
John Landseer (1769-1852, DNB). Painter and archaeologist.
2
It is not entirely clear what Faraday's connection with the Artists' Benevolent Fund was. He does not appear on the list of subscribers for 1837 in Guildhall Library MS 23,666 / 1, f.71-82, nor indeed does Landseer. Neither do their names appear in the "Account of the Subscriptions and Donations Received at the ... Dinner" on 12 May 1838 in Guildhall Library MS 23,670 (no foliation).
3
See Lit.Gaz., 9 June 1838, p.361 for an account of Landseer's Friday Evening Discourse of 25 May 1838 "On the Astronomy of the Book of Job".

Please cite as “Faraday1082,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 2 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday1082