Faraday to Mrs Magrath   11 November 18391

Royal Institution | 11 Nov 1839

Dear Madam

I am sorry my answer your note will prove useless to you but I have been engaged for three months past in favour of James Willm Thirkell for the next election2[.]

I am my dear Madam | Your faithful Servant | M. Faraday

Mrs. Magrath

1
Presumably the mother of Edward Magrath. There is no indication that Mrs Magrath was a subscriber of the London Orphan Asylum, but Edward had been from 1831. See the 1840 Report of the London Orphan AsylumSuRO 3719/2/9, p.140.
2
James William Thirkell (the son of a deceased engineer from St George's in the East) was elected to a place in the London Orphan Asylum in 1840. Ibid., p.35. See note 2, letter 533.

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