Thomas Livingstone Mitchell to Faraday   27 August 1838

3 Upper Queens' Bgs | Brompton 27 Augt 1838

Dear Sir,

At length our book comes forth, and as I am sure you will feel pleasure in perceiving how much I am indebted to the talents of Mr. Barnard in the illustrating1 - I take the liberty of presenting you with a copy - and in testimony also of my sense of obligations to yourself in the kindness your shewed me in analysing the waters2 - and in so liberally naming the work and its' author to the members of the Royal Institution.

Believe me dear Sir | Your very much obliged | T.L. Mitchell

Professor Faraday &c &c &c


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

1
George Barnard did some of the lithographs for Mitchell (1838).
2
See Mitchell (1838), 2: 266 and letters 1031, 1034, 1037 and 1038.

Bibliography

MITCHELL, Thomas Livingstone (1838): Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia, with descriptions of the recently explored region of Australia Felix, and of the present colony of New South Wales, 2 volumes, London.

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