Thomas William Aston Haviland Burke to Faraday   14 February 1840

27 Gloucester Place | New Road | Feb 14: 1840

My dear Sir

May I take the liberty of requesting your kind assistance in favor of my old friend Montesquieu Bellew1 at the Ballot for the Athenaeum club on Monday next the 19th Inst2[.]

Very Truly Yours | T. Haviland Burke

over, turn

As you need a kind of doctor and may be considered by the Nobility Gentry & others the legitimate successor of Francis Bacon3, has you yet discovered the Philosopher's stone, and if you dont, make haste so to do, because Mister Baring4 of the Exchequer is wonderfully in want of the ready. Excuse this trouble | THB


Address: Michael Faraday Esq | &c &c &c | 21 Albermarle Street | Piccadilly

1
Richard Montesquieu Bellew (1803-1880, B1). MP for County Louth, 1832-1852.
2
Bellew was never elected to the Athenaeum. Waugh [1894].
3
Francis Bacon (1561-1826, DSB). Philosopher of science.
4
Francis Thornhill Baring (1796-1866, DNB). Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1839-1841.

Bibliography

WAUGH, Francis Gledstanes [1894]: Members of the Athenaeum Club from its foundation, np.

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