John Landseer1 to Faraday   18 May 18382

Friday Morning

Dear Sir

I can lend you for Exhibition on the evening I read or the next Friday if you should prefer it, a cast (the only one I believe in England) of a sculptured stone found by Count Michaux3 in the bed of the Tigris, & now at Paris. If it will be acceptable. The above will serve for your description of it. But, can you send for it, & for my Globe which I shall want while I read? And, can you oblige me with a few tickets for friends who are not members; one of them if you please, for 2 ladies?

And pray tell Mrs Faraday that I believe I shall again be a petitioner to her for a cup of Tea before I read - a favour which if she restricts to Lecturers who have passed the age of 75, will not, I think give her much trouble.

From - Dear sir | Yours Faithfully | J. Landseer


Address: Michael Faraday Esq LL.D. | &c &c &c | Royal Inst

1
John Landseer (1769-1852, DNB). Painter and archaeologist.
2
Dated on the basis that Landseer gave his Friday Evening Discourse "On the Astronomy of the Book of Job" on 25 May 1838. See Lit.Gaz.9 June 1838, p.361 which noted that Landseer used a globe. See letter 1082.
3
André Michaux (1746-1802, DAB). French explorer. He was in the Tigris and Euphrates area, 1782-1785.

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