Faraday to John Edward Gray   20 January 1840

R Institution | 20 Jany 1840

My dear Sir

Send me a pennyworth of postage1 & say that I may fix your evening for the 14th of February2[.]

Ever Yours | M. Faraday

E.W. [sic] Gray Esq | &c &c &c

1
A reference to universal Penny Postage which had been introduced on 10 January 1840. See Hill (1880), 1: 390.
2
Gray did not give a Friday Evening Discourse then, or indeed any during 1840. The Discourse that day was given by George Catlin (1796-1872, DAB, an American who had studied North American Indians and who was in Europe, 1840-1848) on North American Indians. Noted in Phil.Mag., 1840, 16: 338.

Bibliography

HILL, Rowland (1880): The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, 2 volumes, London.

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