Edmund Storr Halswell to Faraday   15 March 1839¹

Gore Lodge | March 15 1839

My dear Faraday,

I send you two large Etruscan vases, the subject of one is too free to be publicly exposed, a piece of paper may be tied over that side of it an Etruscan Prosphericulum one Do. remarkable for being unbaked - a small Etruscan urn - a small round Roman Patera² ornamented with Dolphins a Roman urn for the ashes of the bodies - this urn was taken by me from the Mausoleum of the Freed Men of Augustus built at the side of the Appian Way. I mention these facts if Mr Cowper³ should think it worthwhile to notice them particularly⁴.

I should like a very strong caution to be written to prevent any one touching them.

Faithfully Yours | Edm Halswell

Address: M. Faraday Esq | Royal Institution